Adjective: cheerful cheer-ful
- Being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
"a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"
- Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
"Her cheerful outlook on life was both admirable and frustrating";
- pollyannaish, upbeat, Pollyannaish
See also: beaming, beamish [archaic], blithe, blithesome [archaic], buoyant, cheer, cheerfulness, cheery, chipper, chirpy [informal], debonair, debonaire [rare], gay, glad, happy, jaunty, lighthearted, light-hearted, lightsome, optimistic, perky, playful, smiley, smiling, sunniness, sunny, sunshine, sunshiny, twinkly, unserious
Antonym: cheerless
Encyclopedia: Cheerful