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US
/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/
]
[ UK /tʃˈiəfəl/ ]
[ UK /tʃˈiəfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be
a cheerful room
her cheerful nature
a cheerful greeting - pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
How To Use cheerful In A Sentence
- They were energetic, bright eyed, and cheerful.
- She gave me a cheerful grin and rattled off her past employers, accompanied by a brief biodata, both seemingly satisfying.
- Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
- A year later, in ‘L' Allegro ’, the delphic element had disappeared, and Milton's cheerful man heard ‘Sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child Warble his native woodnotes wild’.
- The cheerful room was panelled in pine.
- Clean and cheerful, the rooms are decorated with children's artwork and handicrafts.
- Be happy, be cheerful.It's time to celebrate.My friend was born today.Hope your course is charted for lots of luck all the year through.
- Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
- We found a cheap and cheerful cafe .
- An aide said: 'The duchess is cheerful. Times, Sunday Times