gratamente

pleasantly

adverb grah-tah-MEN-teh Rare

Usage Note

Gratamente is the adverbial form of grato ('pleasing, agreeable') and is most often used in the fixed phrase gratamente sorprendido ('pleasantly surprised'). It belongs to a formal register and is more common in written Spanish than in casual speech, where con agrado or de manera agradable may be preferred. Its antonym is desagradablemente.

Examples

"Quedamos gratamente sorprendidos por el resultado."

Natural Translation

We were pleasantly surprised by the result.

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