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Cheerful   /tʃˈɪrfəl/   Listen
Cheerful

adjective
1.
Being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits.  "A cheerful greeting" , "A cheerful room" , "As cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"  Antonym: depressing.
2.
Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.  Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat.



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"Cheerful" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish to pay my respects to that company of cheerful sinners—the open throat propagandists. I was taught in my youth that the punishment for a sin committed ignorantly was none the less pungent and penetrating, and I trust that in administering justice to these offenders the powers will ...
— The Head Voice and Other Problems - Practical Talks on Singing • D. A. Clippinger

... went on, more cheerful. "As I was telling her just now, a month from yesterday's our fourth anniversary, and I'm going to take her ashore for the day and give her a holiday—new hat and everything. A girl wants a mite of excitement now ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

... fire, That long hast warm'd my tender breast, Must thou no more this frame inspire? No more a pleasing, cheerful guest? Whither, ah, whither art thou flying, To what dark, undiscovered shore? Thou seem'st all trembling, shivering, dying, And wit and humour are ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... made them feel more cheerful. Then just back of them came the sound of horses' hoofs and a kindly voice called out, "Well, well, this is some plight you-all ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... sloop is a pirate, whoever acquires a crowbar a burglar, whoever acquires a sword an assassin. You will say that there is nothing in the world, however harmless, that may not be put to some bad use, nothing so cheerful that it may not be given a gloomy meaning. And yet we do not on that account put a bad interpretation on everything, as though, for instance, you should hold that incense, cassia, myrrh, and similar other scents are purchased solely for the purpose of funerals; whereas they ...
— The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura • Lucius Apuleius


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