different between cheerful vs franion

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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Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Noun

franion (plural franions)

1. (obsolete) A cheerful, frivolous person, a silly man; a loose woman.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book II, Canto 2, p. 215,^[1]

     First by her side did sitt the bold Sansloy,

     Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon,

     Who in her loosenesse tooke exceeding ioy;

     Might not be found a francker franion,

     Of her leawd parts to make companion:

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 12-14,^[2]

     […] as I am frollicke franion, never in all my life was I so dead slaine.

   • 1830, Charles Lamb, “Going or Gone” in Album Verses, with a few others, London: Edward Moxon, p. 75,^[3]

     Fine merry franions,

     Wanton companions,

     My days are ev’n banyans

     With thinking upon ye;