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cheerful

English

Alternative forms

  • cheerfull (archaic)
  • chearful (archaic or dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer +? -ful.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?t????f?l/, /?t????f?l/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t????f?l/, /?t????f?l/
  • Hyphenation: cheer?ful
  • Rhymes: -??rf?l

Adjective

cheerful (comparative more cheerful, superlative most cheerful)

  1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.
    Synonyms: bright, bubbly, cheerly, ebullient, happy, joyful, merry, optimistic, vivacious; see also Thesaurus:happy
    Antonyms: depressed, miserable, sad
  2. Bright and pleasant.
    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Translations

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cheerless

English

Etymology

cheer +? -less

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -??(r)l?s

Adjective

cheerless (comparative more cheerless, superlative most cheerless)

  1. Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sad
    Antonym: cheerful

Derived terms

  • cheerlessly
  • cheerlessness

Anagrams

  • Scheelers, rechlesse

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