cheerful

1. Being full of or promoting cheer;
   Having or showing good spirits (synset 300363547)
   "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
   also:

   • happy - enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
   • glad - showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
   tells us about: cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine - the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
   similar to:

   • beaming, glad - cheerful and bright
   • beamish, smiling, twinkly - smiling with happiness or optimism
   • blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome - carefree and happy and lighthearted
   • buoyant, chirpy, perky - characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
   • cheery, gay, sunny - bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
   • chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty - having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
2. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic (synset 301668480)
   similar to: optimistic - expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
   same as: pollyannaish, upbeat

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