cheerful

Definition

Noticeably happy and optimistic.

Etymology

From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer + -ful.

Example Sentences

• "Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them."
• "He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick."
• "The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race."