About The Word Cheerful

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Cheerful

Cheerful Meaning & Definition
Cheerful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cheerful?

[adj] being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
[adj] pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cheerful: beaming | beamish | blithe | blithesome | buoyant | cheering | cheery | chipper | chirpy | debonair | debonaire | gay | glad | jaunty | lighthearted | lightsome | optimistic | perky | pollyannaish | smiling(a) | sunny | twinkly | upbeat

Related Terms | Find terms related to Cheerful: affable | agreeable | airy | amiable | amicable | animated | animating | beaming | beatific | beatified | blessed | blissful | blithe | blithesome | bright | bright and sunny | buoyant | capering | carefree | cheering | cheery | chiliastic | chirk | chirping | chirpy | chirrupy | comfortable | compatible | complaisant | congenial | cordial | corky | couleur de rose | cozy | dancing | debonair | desirable | dulcet | elated | en rapport | encouraging | enjoyable | enlivening | eupeptic | euphoric | exalted | exhilarated | exhilarating | exuberant | fair | fair and pleasant | felicific | felicitous | fine | flushed | flushed with joy | friendly | gay | genial | glad | gladdening | gladsome | gleeful | glowing | good | goodly | gracious | grateful | gratifying | happy | harmonious | heartening | heart-warming | high | homelike | homely | homey | homish | honeyed | hopeful | in good spirits | in high spirits | inspiring | inspiriting | intimate | invigorating | irrepressible | jaunty | jolly | joyful | joyous | jubilant | laughing | leaping | Leibnizian | lighthearted | light-hearted | lightsome | likable | lively | mellifluous | mellow | merry | millenarian | millennialistic | nice | of good cheer | optimistic | peaceful | perfectibilitarian | perfectionist | plain | pleasant | pleasing | pleasurable | pleasureful | pleasure-giving | purring | radiant | rewarding | riant | roseate | rose-colored | rosy | sanguine | sanguineous | satisfying | simple | singing | smiling | smirking | snug | sparkling | starry-eyed | sunny | sweet | thrice happy | unpretending | upbeat | utopian | vivacious | welcome | winsome

See Also | happy

Cheerful In Webster's Dictionary

\Cheer"ful\, a. Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. --Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. --Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. --Macaulay. This general applause and cheerful shout. --Shak. Syn: Lively; animated; gay; joyful; lightsome; gleeful; blithe; airy; sprightly; jocund; jolly; joyous; vivacious; buoyant; sunny; happy; hopeful.

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