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cheerful

DEFINITIONS OF: cheerful

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adj 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”
Synonyms
beaming, glad
cheerful and bright
beamish, smiling, twinkly
smiling with happiness or optimism
blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome
carefree and happy and lighthearted
buoyant, chirpy, perky
characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
cheery, gay, sunny
bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty
having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
happy
enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
glad
showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
Antonyms:
cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry
causing dejection
melancholy, somber, sombre
grave or even gloomy in character
unhappy
experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
joyless
not experiencing or inspiring joy
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adj pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

Synonyms:
pollyannaish, upbeat
optimistic
expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
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