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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