cheerful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cheer=ful
• COUNT in NET: 5 in 5 verses (in OT : 4 in 4 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

cheerful, a. 

 Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.  [1913 Webster]
"To entertain a cheerful disposition."  [1913 Webster]
"The cheerful birds of sundry kind
Do chant sweet music."  [1913 Webster]
"A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God."  [1913 Webster]
"This general applause and cheerful shout."

Syn. -- Lively; animated; gay; joyful; lightsome; gleeful; blithe; airy; sprightly; jocund; jolly; joyous; vivacious; buoyant; sunny; happy; hopeful.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cheerful, adj.
1 in good spirits, noticeably happy (a cheerful disposition).
2 bright, pleasant (a cheerful room).
3 willing, not reluctant.

Derivative

cheerfully adv. cheerfulness n.

THESAURUS

cheerful

Leibnizian, affable, agreeable, airy, amiable, amicable, animated, animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, buoyant, capering, carefree, cheering, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy, comfortable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, corky, couleur de rose, cozy, dancing, debonair, desirable, dulcet, elated, en rapport, encouraging, enjoyable, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, exuberant, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed, flushed with joy, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heartening, high, homelike, homely, homey, homish, honeyed, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, inspiring, inspiriting, intimate, invigorating, irrepressible, jaunty, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, leaping, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, likable, lively, mellifluous, mellow, merry, millenarian, millennialistic, nice, of good cheer, optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian, vivacious, welcome, winsome

ROGET THESAURUS

cheerful

Content

N content, contentment, contentedness, complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind, serenity, cheerfulness, ray of comfort, comfort reconciliation, resignation, waiter on Providence, content, contented, satisfied, at ease, at one's ease, at home, with the mind at ease, sans souci, sine cura, easygoing, not particular, conciliatory, unrepining, of good comfort, resigned, cheerful, unafflicted, unvexed, unmolested, unplagued, serene, at rest, snug, comfortable, in one's element, satisfactory, tolerable, good enough, OK, all right, acceptable, contently, contentedly, to one's heart's content, a la bonne heure, all for the best, Int, amen, very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good, it will do, that will do, it cannot be helped, nothing comes amiss, a heart with room for every joy, ich habe genossen das irdische Gluck ich habe gele, nor cast one longing lingering look behind, shut up in measureless content, sweet are the thoughts that savor of content, their wants but few their wishes all confined, might as well relax and enjoy it.

Cheerfulness

N cheerfulness, geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits, high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits, glee, high glee, light heart, sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast, gaiete de coeur, bon naturel, liveliness, life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse, jocundity, joviality, jollity, levity, jocularity, mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration, laughter, merrymaking, heyday, rejoicing, marriage bell, nepenthe, Euphrosyne, sweet forgetfulness, optimism, self complacency, hedonics, hedonism, cheerful, happy, cheery, cheerly, of good cheer, smiling, blithe, in spirits, in good spirits, breezy, bully, chipper, in high spirits, in high feather, happy as the day is long, happy as a king, gay as a lark, allegro, debonair, light, lightsome, light hearted, buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy, janty, jaunty, canty, hedonic, riant, sprightly, sprightful, spry, spirited, spiritful, lively, animated, vivacious, brisk as a bee, sparkling, sportive, full of play, full of spirit, all alive, sunny, palmy, hopeful, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell, joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial, jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy, blithesome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, rattling, winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom, playful, playsome, folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome, gamesome, jocose, jocular, waggish, mirth loving, laughter-loving, mirthful, rollicking, elate, elated, exulting, jubilant, flushed, rejoicing, cock-a-hoop, cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating, cardiac, cardiacal, pleasing, palmy, cheerfully, Int, never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, hence loathed melancholy!, begone dull care!, away with melancholy!, a merry heart goes all the day, as merry as the day is long, ride si sapis.

Rejoicing

N rejoicing, exultation, triumph, jubilation, heyday, flush, revelling, merrymaking, jubilee, paean, Te Deum, congratulation, smile, simper, smirk, grin, broad grin, sardonic grin, laughter (amusement), risibility, derision, Momus, Democritus the Abderite, rollicker, rejoicing, jubilant, exultant, triumphant, flushed, elated, pleased, delighted, tickled pink, amused, cheerful, laughable, Int, hurrah!, Huzza!, aha!, hail!, tolderolloll!, Heaven be praised!, io triumphe!, tant mieux!, so much the better, the heart leaping with joy, ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire, Laughter holding both his sides, le roi est mort, vive le roi, with his eyes in flood with laughter.