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UK
/tʃˈiəfəlnəs/
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[ US /ˈtʃɪɹfəɫnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈtʃɪɹfəɫnəs/ ]
NOUN
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a feeling of spontaneous good spirits
his cheerfulness made everyone feel better -
the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room
How To Use cheerfulness In A Sentence
- At fifty years of age, he began to be grievously afflicted with the stone and nephritic colic; but bore with cheerfulness the most excruciating pains of his distemper. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.
- The cheerfulness he preached was always qualified by an awareness of the real world's iniquity.
- She teaches how to continue with discretion what is thoughtlessly undertaken; she inclines the mind to cleave steadfastly to what was imposed upon it by authority; and imparts to a choice which, though rash at the time, is now irrevocable, all the sanctity, all the advisedness, and, let us say it boldly, all the cheerfulness of a lawful calling. Chapter X
- Yea," is thy word to me with the tongue: say it to me with thy mind, and with the word mourn heavily, that thou mayest have continual cheerfulness. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
- In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
- They're home movies, with all the cheerfulness and awkwardness the term implies, except that the home is Obersalzberg, Hitler's Bavarian mountain retreat, where Hitler is seen giving a persuasive—unless you pay close attention—impression of a full human being. 'Pariah' Stands Apart—As Fresh Teen Tale
- Cheerfulness doesn't always imply happiness.
- Although he is now housed in an open prison, and he maintains a certain hearty cheerfulness, few doubt that Archer has been chastened by his prison experience.
- flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room