English > cheerful: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits. |
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| Examples | - "her cheerful nature"
- "a cheerful greeting"
- "a cheerful room"
- "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
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| Attribute of | cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
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| Narrower | beaming, glad | cheerful and bright |
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| beamish, smiling, twinkly | smiling with happiness or optimism |
| blithe, blithesome, lighthearted, lightsome, light-hearted | carefree and happy and lighthearted |
| buoyant, chirpy, perky | Characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness |
| cheery, gay, sunny | bright and pleasant |
| chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty | Having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air |
| See also | glad | showing or causing joy and pleasure |
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| happy | enjoying / enjoying / enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure |
| Opposite | depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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| Spanish | alegre, animado, divertido, jovial |
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| Catalan | alegre, animat |
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| Nouns | cheerfulness | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
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