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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)
- Noticeably happy and optimistic.
- Synonyms: bright, bubbly, cheerly, ebullient, happy, joyful, merry, optimistic, vivacious; see also Thesaurus:happy
- Antonyms: depressed, miserable, sad
- 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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sparkling
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sp??kl???/, /?sp??kl??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sp??kl???/, /?sp??kl??/
- Hyphenation: spark?ling
Verb
sparkling
- Present participle and gerund of sparkle.
Adjective
sparkling (not comparable)
- Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks.
- Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
- (figuratively) Brilliant and vivacious.
Synonyms
- (of an object, reflecting light): glistening, twinkling
- (of a beverage): fizzy, carbonated; see also Thesaurus:effervescent
Antonyms
- (of a beverage): noncarbonated, still; see also Thesaurus:noneffervescent
Translations
Noun
sparkling (plural sparklings)
- Act or appearance of something that sparkles; a sparkle; a gleam.
- 1820, Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, The Renegade and Other Poems, "Song"
- Bright are the sparklings that beam from the dew.
- 1820, Nathaniel John Hollingsworth, The Renegade and Other Poems, "Song"
- A sparkling wine.
- 2011, Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)
- Wines like this struggle to stand out on the show circuit, where the judges are more likely to be searching for sparklings designed in the classic Champagne mould.
- 2011, Michael Cooper, 100 Must-try New Zealand Wines (page 208)
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