Cheerful Meaning
/ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNoticeably happy and optimistic.
adjBright and pleasant.
Sentence Examples
Come what may, we must remain cheerful.
What a cheerful story!
You're not your usual cheerful self today.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Despite the rainy weather, she remained ____ and hummed a happy tune.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She always has a ____ smile on her face, even on a cloudy day city.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer + -ful.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with
Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them."
— 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 32:
"He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick."
— 1913, W[illiam] D[ean] Howells, chapter XXIII, in New Leaf Mills: A Chronicle, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 150:
"The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race."
— 1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
"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."
— 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Despite the rainy weather, she remained ____ and hummed a happy tune.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She always has a ____ smile on her face, even on a cloudy day city.