English adjective: cheerful | |||
1. | cheerful being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | ||
Samples | Her cheerful nature. A cheerful greeting. A cheerful room. As cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be. | ||
Similar | beaming, beamish, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, cheery, chipper, chirpy, debonair, debonaire, gay, glad, jaunty, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, perky, smiling, sunny, twinkly | ||
See also | glad, happy | ||
Attribute | cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine | ||
Antonyms | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
2. | cheerful pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | ||
Synonyms | pollyannaish, upbeat | ||
Similar | optimistic | ||
Antonyms | pessimistic | ||