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From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer + -ful.
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfʊl/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɪə(ɹ)fəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɪə(ɹ)fʊl/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fʊl/[1]
- Hyphenation: cheer‧ful
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fʊl, -ɪə(ɹ)fəl
cheerful (comparative more cheerful, superlative most cheerful)
- Noticeably happy and optimistic.
- Bright and pleasant.
They enjoyed a cheerful room.
1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
happy
- Arabic: مَسْرُور (ar) (masrūr), فَرِح (ar) (fariḥ)
- Armenian: ցնծալից (hy) (cʻncalicʻ)
- Azerbaijani: şən (az)
- Bulgarian: бодър (bg) (bodǎr), весел (bg) (vesel)
- Chinese:
- Crimean Tatar: şeñ
- Czech: radostný (cs), šťastný (cs)
- Danish: fornøjet, munter
- Dutch: blijmoedig (nl), tevreden (nl)
- Esperanto: gaja (eo)
- Finnish: hilpeä (fi), iloinen (fi)
- French: joyeux (fr), content (fr), de bonne humeur
- Galician: animado (gl), alegre (gl)
- Georgian: ხალისიანი (xalisiani), მხიარული (mxiaruli)
- German: fröhlich (de), vergnügt (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἱλαρός (hilarós)
- Irish: grianmhar, misniúil, spéiriúil, muirneach
- Italian: allegro (it), felice (it), gioioso (it)
- Japanese: 楽しげな (たのしげな, tanoshige na), 陽気な (ja) (ようきな, yōki na), 嬉しい (ja) (うれしい, ureshii)
- Korean: 기쁘다 (ko) (gippeuda)
- Latin: laetus (la), gaudens, hilaris (la)
- Latvian: jautrs
- Macedonian: весел (vesel)
- Maori: hurō, hihiko, manahau, harikoa, takaahuareka
- Norman: rêjoui
- Ottoman Turkish: سرخوش (sarhoş)
- Plautdietsch: froo, freelich, schaftich
- Portuguese: alegre (pt)
- Russian: весёлый (ru) (vesjólyj)
- Sanskrit: रंसु (sa) (raṃsu)
- Sardinian:
- Sassarese: cuntèntu, allègru
- Spanish: animado (es)
- Swahili: -kunjufu
- Swedish: uppsluppen (sv), levnadsglad (sv), munter (sv)
- Tagalog: masayahin
- Thai: ร่าเริง (th) (râa-rəəng)
- Ukrainian: весе́лий (vesélyj)
- Vietnamese: vui vẻ (vi)
bright
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.36, page 124.