1 happy, and showing it by the way that you behave:
You're not your usual cheerful self today. * He felt bright and cheerful and full of energy. * You're in a cheerful mood. * a cheerful, hard-working employee * a cheerful smile / voice
2 giving you a feeling of happiness:
a bright, cheerful restaurant * walls painted in cheerful (= light and bright) colours * a chatty, cheerful letter
cheerfully adverb:
to laugh / nod / whistle cheerfully * I could cheerfully have killed him when he said that (= I would have liked to). * She cheerfully admitted that she had no experience at all (= she wasn't afraid to do so).
cheerfulness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cheerful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cheerful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cheerful is tagged as adjective.
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