cheerful
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Synonyms
blithe, blithesome, bright, buoyant, canty [British dialect], cheery, chipper, eupeptic, gay, gladsome, lightsome, sunny, upbeat, winsome
Antonyms
dour, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen
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Someone who may seem bright and cheerful on the outside may be dealing with serious issues. — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive.com, "Horoscope for Aug. 6, 2019: Happy birthday Ever Carradine; Virgo, the wise don’t need to put on a display," 6 Aug. 2019 Delaney, a cheerful, hands-on ecologist with a doctorate from UCLA, joined the National Park Service in 2010 and was soon put in charge of reintroducing the frogs. — Joe Dworetzky, Los Angeles Times, "The threatened frogs of the Santa Monica Mountains always had it hard. The Woolsey fire made things much worse," 25 July 2019 Tracking Stan Lee, a sentinel who had recently wandered into a farm, Bartoszek got a cheerful wave-through from a farm supervisor. — Gena Steffens, Smithsonian, "The Snakes That Ate Florida," 11 July 2019 Working with the family, Keia created a cheerful, inviting space full of bold and happy color. — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, "This Cheerful, Colorful Renovation Is the Perfect New Home for a Moving Military Family," 2 July 2019 But there is one area where the church needs to change faster, as was highlighted by a trial that darkened the otherwise cheerful summer activities in Rochester. — Rochester, The Economist, "English cathedrals attract the devout, the dotty and darker forces," 16 Aug. 2019 His writing style is cheerful and optimistic, straightforward and detached. — John Wilmerding, WSJ, "Between Fact and Imagination," 28 June 2019 And some of the stories are especially heartbreaking, like that of elfin, 6-year-old Strawberry, who was rescued from human traffickers as an infant and whose usual cheerful outlook darkens when her friends are visited by their parents. — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, "Four to watch at the Salem Film Fest," 15 Mar. 2018 Sheeran, who comes across as a caricature of a cheerful, unassuming Brit, received a standing ovation. — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, "Ed Sheeran and Friends," 22 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cheerful.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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