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cheerful
Overview of adj cheerful
The adj cheerful has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) cheerful -- (being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be")
2. cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat -- (pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic)
Grep of noun cheerful
cheerfulness
Antonyms of adj cheerful
2 senses of cheerful
Sense 1
cheerful (vs. cheerless)
cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful
=> blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
=> somber, sombre, melancholy
Sense 2
cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat
INDIRECT (VIA optimistic) -> pessimistic
Similarity of adj cheerful
2 senses of cheerful
Sense 1
cheerful (vs. cheerless)
=> beaming, glad
=> beamish, smiling(prenominal), twinkly
=> blithe, blithesome, lighthearted, lightsome, light-hearted
=> buoyant, chirpy, perky
=> cheering
=> cheery, gay, sunny
=> chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty
Also See> glad#1; happy#1
Sense 2
cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat
=> optimistic (vs. pessimistic)
Pertainyms of adj cheerful
Attributes of adj cheerful
1 of 2 senses of cheerful
Sense 1
cheerful (vs. cheerless)
=> cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine
Domain of adj cheerful
Domain Terms of adj cheerful
Familiarity of adj cheerful
cheerful used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj cheerful
cheerful
uncheerful
Grep of adv cheerful
cheerfully
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