| 单词 | cheerful |
| 释义 | cheerful (once / 176 pages) adj Someone who's cheerful is spirited and happy. Your sister might be so cheerful that you hear her whistling joyfully first thing in the morning. If you're full of good humor and optimism, your friends probably describe you as cheerful. A cheerful bus driver, restaurant server, or calculus teacher can brighten your whole day. Cheerful means "full of cheer," and cheer, which came to mean "good mood or spirit," started out in the 13th century meaning "the face," from the Late Latin cara, "face," and its Greek root, kara, "head." WORD FAMILYcheerful: cheerfuler, cheerfulest, cheerfulness, uncheerful+/cheer: cheered, cheerer, cheerful, cheering, cheerless, cheers, cheery/cheerer: cheerers/cheerfulness: cheerfulnesses/cheering: cheeringly, cheerings/cheerless: cheerlessly, cheerlessness/cheery: cheerier, cheeriest, cheerily/uncheerful: uncheerfully, uncheerfulness USAGE EXAMPLESHe is a cheerful, demonstrative man, seventy-six years old, with a short gray beard and a mobile face. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Anna Kelsey, my counterpart at the startup x.ai, put our herculean, or maybe Sisyphean, task in cheerful terms. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) These are big reasons to be cheerful, and we need them. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant beaming, glad cheerful and bright beamish, smiling, twinklysmiling with happiness or optimism blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsomecarefree and happy and lighthearted buoyant, chirpy, perkycharacterized by liveliness and lightheartedness cheery, gay, sunnybright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer chipper, debonair, debonaire, jauntyhaving a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure gladshowing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorrycausing dejection melancholy, somber, sombregrave or even gloomy in character unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent joylessnot experiencing or inspiring joy 2adj pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic Syn pollyannaish, upbeat optimistic expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds |
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