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cheerful Definition

cheer·ful (c̸hirfəl)

adjective

  1. full of cheer; joyful
  2. filling with cheer; bright and attractive a cheerful room
  3. willing; ready a cheerful helper

cheerful Related Forms
cheer·fully adverb cheer·ful·ness noun
cheerful Synonyms

cheerful

modif.

  1. Said especially of persons

    gay, merry, optimistic, in good spirits; see happy 1, hopeful 1, lively 2, sprightly.

  2. Said especially of things

    cheery, bright, sunny, sparkling; see comfortable 2, lively 2, pleasant 2, sprightly. See syn. study at happy.

cheerful Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • response: Uses to decide cheerful in response on time they service fees on.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: It was a sound which did not make _her_ cheerful; she wondered that Edmund should forget her, and felt a pang.

Modifies a noun

  • giver: He loves you, a special love, for the cheerful giver.
  • disposition: With this kind of positive attitude, you will attain a cheerful disposition to beat the blues.
  • countenance: About her twentieth year she is described as being somewhat above the middle height, possessing a graceful form and an open cheerful countenance.
  • smile: Alan: [ With a cheerful smile ] Yes I am.
  • optimism: In its cheerful optimism this article is particularly characteristic of its author.
  • chap: Then we have a cheerful chap whose good humor is as ample as his proportions.

Modifying Another Word

  • unfailingly: Unfailingly cheerful, in spite of indifferent health, he developed, in later life, an enthusiasm for computing.
  • relentlessly: Yet despite all this Sarah is relentlessly cheerful and positive.
  • remarkably: The scene, indeed, was not remarkably cheerful in itself, either within or without.
  • wonderfully: She sleeps very badly at night, & is very nervous at times, but wonderfully cheerful in general.
  • surprisingly: Surprisingly cheerful and sunny day for the top of the Macc!
  • quite: The two men, however, were quite cheerful.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Cons: Drivers don't seem quite as cheerful as other staff, not sure why.
  • remain: He was laughing and joking about the events on the Friday and has remained cheerful during his illness.
  • appear: Often in pain, he never failed to appear cheerful.
  • feel: I felt like I had a dagger in my heart, and that I would never feel cheerful again.
  • look: The city looked cheerful in the bright sunlight, the streets lined with trees, with little garden patches between them.
  • keep: If " Brian " could be kept cheerful, and if nobody was ill ( and, alas!
cheerful Quotes

Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, Cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.

—Robinson, Edwin Arlington

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

So let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

—Bible (NewTestament)

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

—Bible (Old Testament)

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