Dictionary Definition
cheerful adj
1 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" [ant: cheerless]
2 pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
[syn: pollyannaish,
upbeat]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Noticeably happy and optimistic.
- Bright and pleasant
- They enjoyed a cheerful room.
Translations
bright
- Danish: lys, venlig
- Finnish: hilpeä, iloinen
- German: freundlich
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Leibnizian, 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, heart-warming,
heartening, 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, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, likable, lively, mellifluous, mellow, merry, millenarian, millennialistic,
nice, of good cheer,
optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian,
perfectionist,
plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable,
pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed,
sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian, vivacious, welcome, winsome