Joyfully (adv.) In a way that shows you are experiencing, causing, or showing great happiness and joy. The meaning of joy: c. 1200, "feeling of pleasure and delight;" c. 1300, "source of pleasure or happiness," from Old French joie "pleasure, delight, bliss, joyfulness;" (11c.), from Latin gaudia "expressions of pleasure; sensual delight," plural of gaudium "joy, inward joy, gladness, delight; source of pleasure or delight;" from Middle Irish guaire "noble." The "Adverbly" series celebrates the almighty modifier of verbs and adjectives. Here, sea creatures and plump, verdant peaches "joyfully" dance and sway amongst images of flora and living textures gleaned from the public domain.