Usually means: Voluntarily, without coercion or pressure.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word willingly:

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  1. willingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. willingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. willingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. willingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Willingly, willingly: Wordnik
  6. willingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. willingly: Wiktionary
  8. willingly: Dictionary.com
  9. willingly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Willingly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Willingly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. willingly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. willingly: Rhymezone
  14. Willingly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. willingly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. willingly: FreeDictionary.org
  17. willingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. willingly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. willingly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willingly: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willingly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (willingly)

▸ adverb:  Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.

Similar:
volitionally, fain, freely, wilfully, spontaneously, voluntarily, unpromptedly, motu proprio, willfully, self-willedly, more...

Opposite:
unwillingly, reluctantly, grudgingly, forcibly, hesitantly

Phrases:
take willingly, more willingly, receiving willingly, to do something willingly, willingly give, more...

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     coral pink,     lavender,     goldenrod, more...



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Similar:
volitionally, fain, freely, wilfully, spontaneously, voluntarily, unpromptedly, motu proprio, willfully, self-willedly, more...

Opposite:
unwillingly, reluctantly, grudgingly, forcibly, hesitantly

Phrases:
take willingly, more willingly, receiving willingly, to do something willingly, willingly give, willingly walking to your death, someone who takes the blame willingly, opposite of willingly, more...

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     coral pink,     lavender,     goldenrod, more...



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