cheerful
/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.60 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
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."
- "They enjoyed a cheerful room."
- "At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/
Inflected Forms
more cheerful (comparative)
cheerfuler (comparative)
cheerfuller (comparative)
most cheerful (superlative)
cheerfulest (superlative)
cheerfullest (superlative)
cheerfull (alternative, archaic)
chearful (alternative, archaic)