cheerfuladjective
uk/ˈtʃɪə.fəl/us/ˈtʃɪr.fəl/B1 happy and positive:
He's usually fairly cheerful.
You're in a cheerful mood this morning.
She manages to stay cheerful (= happy and positive) despite everything.
B2 used to describe a place or thing that is bright and pleasant and makes you feel positive and happy:
The doctor's waiting room was bright and cheerful with yellow walls and curtains.
Turn that dreadful wailing music off and put on something cheerful.
More examples
- She's not her customary cheerful self today.
- She tends to adopt a falsely cheerful tone when she's upset about something.
- She presents such a cheerful front that you'd never guess she's ill.
- He's infallibly cheerful, despite his difficulties.
- Even at the end, when cancer racked his body, he was calm and cheerful.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feeling pleasure and happiness
- (as) pleased as Punch idiom
- be as high as a kite idiom
- be dancing in the streets idiom
- be floating on air idiom
- be full of the joys of spring idiom
- be in seventh heaven idiom
- breezy
- brighten
- dance
- delighted
- ecstatic
- elated
- enraptured
- incandescent
- jolly
- jump for joy idiom
- light-hearted
- look/feel like a million dollars idiom
- loved up
- made up
See more results »
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Causing pleasure
cheerfully
adverb uk/ˈtʃɪə.fəl.i/us/ˈtʃɪr.fəl.i/
B2
She walked down the road, whistling cheerfully.
UK humorous By the end of the evening I could cheerfully have (= I would like to have) punched him.
cheerfulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈtʃɪə.fəl.nəs/us/ˈtʃɪr.fəl.nəs/