NOUN | attribute | cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
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feeling | cheerfulness, blitheness | a feeling of spontaneous good spirits |
Meaning | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom. | |
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Example | "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room" | |
Synonyms | cheer, sunniness, sunshine | |
Attributes | cheerful | Full of or promoting cheer |
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | |
Part of | disposition, temperament | Your usual / usual mood |
Narrower | good-temperedness, good-humoredness, good-humouredness, good-naturedness | A cheerful willingness to be obliging |
Broader | attribute | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity |
Opposite | uncheerfulness | not conducive to cheer or good spirits |
Spanish | alegría, vida | |
Catalan | alegria | |
Adjectives | cheerful | being full of or promoting cheer |
Meaning | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits. | |
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Example | "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better" | |
Synonym | blitheness | |
Narrower | buoyancy, perkiness | cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface |
carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness | The cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | |
Broader | happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being |
Opposite | cheerlessness, uncheerfulness | A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness |
Spanish | buen humor | |
Adjectives | cheerful | pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic |
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