Cheery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Showing or suggesting good spirits; cheerful: a cheery hello.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. In a good mood, happy, cheerful
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Showing cheerfulness or good spirits; blithe; gay; sprightly; jocund: as, a cheery tone of voice; always cheery and in good humor.
  • Having power to make gay; promoting cheerfulness; enlivening.
  • Synonyms Cheerful, Cheery. When cheerful means producing cheer, it is only by what seems distinct metonymy, as in such phrases as ‘the cheerful beams of the sun,’ ‘a cheerful fire.’ Cheery is coming into increasing use, representing cheerfulness in its more active forms or manifestations, and especially that cheerfulness which is contagious.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
  • Equivalent
    cheerful   
    Variant
    cheerier    cheeriest   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pleasant    sunny    cheerful    lively    gay    bright    cheering   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alfieri    Cleary    Erie    Kiri    Leary    beery    bleary    deary    dreary    eerie   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cheerful    genial    joyous    hearty    merry    jovial    good-humored    light-hearted    vivacious    brisk