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Cheerful   /tʃˈɪrfəl/   Listen
Cheerful

adjective
1.
Being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits.  "A cheerful greeting" , "A cheerful room" , "As cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
2.
Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.  Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat.



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"Cheerful" Quotes from Famous Books



... crouched lower, hugging their pile of slag, unable to perceive even a stray assailant within range of their ready revolvers. Hampton remained cool, alert, and motionless, striving in vain to discover some means of escape, but the little marshal kept grimly cheerful, creeping constantly from point to point in the endeavor to get a return ...
— Bob Hampton of Placer • Randall Parrish
... the dour uncle himself, after shooting the young squire who has offered dishonourable addresses to Jenny, allows her to pay the penalty of his crime. There is undeniable strength about the book and it holds the attention; but I dispute the right of anyone to call it cheerful. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 19th, 1914 • Various
... Death need not be sad, it should be a matter of indifference. We made death cheerful, crowned it with flowers, covered it with perfume, made it easy. One learns to aid others through example; one can see that it ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... long, long silence, broken by a silvery laugh, which came through the half-opened window like a strain of cheerful music, then was ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn
... a word old Sikaso left the fire and strode off into the forest. He was gone for more than an hour and when he came back his look of gloom had vanished. For him he was almost cheerful. ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton


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