Cheerful
adjective
Feeling or showing happiness or optimism.
She gave me a cheerful smile.
Often appears as...
- cheerful smile
- cheerful mood
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Approving
adjective
Creating a sense of happiness or optimism.
The room was painted in cheerful colors.
Often appears as...
- cheerful colors
- cheerful atmosphere
adjective
Willing or ready to do something.
He was always cheerful to help others.
Often appears as...
- cheerful to help
- cheerful to volunteer
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Approving
adjective
Feeling or showing happiness or optimism.
She gave me a cheerful smile.
Often appears as...
- cheerful smile
- cheerful mood
Usage tips
Approving
adjective
Creating a sense of happiness or optimism.
The room was painted in cheerful colors.
Often appears as...
- cheerful colors
- cheerful atmosphere
adjective
Willing or ready to do something.
He was always cheerful to help others.
Often appears as...
- cheerful to help
- cheerful to volunteer
Usage tips
Approving
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Pro Tip 1/3Positive Energy
Use 'cheerful' to describe someone's infectious good mood that lifts the spirits of others around them.
Her cheerful laughter filled the room with joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Genuine Happiness
'Cheerful' often means a deep, genuine feeling of happiness rather than a temporary or superficial one.
He has a naturally cheerful personality that makes him well-liked.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Appearance
'Cheerful' implies an emotion or attitude, not just a smiling face.
Even with her eyes closed, you could sense her cheerful spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Energy
Use 'cheerful' to describe someone's infectious good mood that lifts the spirits of others around them.
Her cheerful laughter filled the room with joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Genuine Happiness
'Cheerful' often means a deep, genuine feeling of happiness rather than a temporary or superficial one.
He has a naturally cheerful personality that makes him well-liked.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Appearance
'Cheerful' implies an emotion or attitude, not just a smiling face.
Even with her eyes closed, you could sense her cheerful spirit.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Energy
Use 'cheerful' to describe someone's infectious good mood that lifts the spirits of others around them.
Her cheerful laughter filled the room with joy.
Pro Tip 2/3Genuine Happiness
'Cheerful' often means a deep, genuine feeling of happiness rather than a temporary or superficial one.
He has a naturally cheerful personality that makes him well-liked.
Pro Tip 3/3Beyond Appearance
'Cheerful' implies an emotion or attitude, not just a smiling face.
Even with her eyes closed, you could sense her cheerful spirit.
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Here's what I mean. Let's say you're in the break room, and you're talking to some coworkers. Then, all of a sudden, another coworker comes in. Now, they seem to just be in deep thought -- not overly cheerful, but they're not rude. They come in, they walk out.
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The boost students need...
So, I teach college students about inequality and race in education, and I like to leave my office open to any of my students who might just want to see me to chat. And a few semesters ago, one of my more cheerful students, Mahari, actually came to see me
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and well done the toilet paper tree the African weeping wattle and is a very important tree our cheerful for shade it is browsed upon the pods will give you a bad tummy if you eat them and the shade element that it brings them and just in
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The myth of Zeus' test -...
filled with vegetables. The couple could rarely afford meat, but in honor of their guests, Philemon cut strips from an aging shank for the stew. They made cheerful conversation and offered their visitors hot baths.
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How to connect with...
So depression is super common, yet in my experience, most folks don't want to talk to depressed people unless we pretend to be happy. A cheerful facade is appropriate for casual interactions.
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The power of women's...
into the hot, humid air. When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?"
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We can solve big...
solve those problems but there are no miracles we have to want the solutions and cheerfully accept that the solving won't be easy thank you
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Anthony Bourdain and...
cheese, meat, fish-- they're all aged. Wine. So it's really about decay and rot, cheerful as that sounds. I never knew. Thank you.
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Why should you listen to...
Light, bright, and cheerful. It's some of the most familiar of all early 18th century music.
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okay that goes cheerfully feel good what better
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5 steps to remove...
Here's what I mean. Let's say you're in the break room, and you're talking to some coworkers. Then, all of a sudden, another coworker comes in. Now, they seem to just be in deep thought -- not overly cheerful, but they're not rude. They come in, they walk out.
Video examples
The boost students need...
So, I teach college students about inequality and race in education, and I like to leave my office open to any of my students who might just want to see me to chat. And a few semesters ago, one of my more cheerful students, Mahari, actually came to see me
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
and well done the toilet paper tree the African weeping wattle and is a very important tree our cheerful for shade it is browsed upon the pods will give you a bad tummy if you eat them and the shade element that it brings them and just in
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The myth of Zeus' test -...
filled with vegetables. The couple could rarely afford meat, but in honor of their guests, Philemon cut strips from an aging shank for the stew. They made cheerful conversation and offered their visitors hot baths.
Video examples
How to connect with...
So depression is super common, yet in my experience, most folks don't want to talk to depressed people unless we pretend to be happy. A cheerful facade is appropriate for casual interactions.
Video examples
The power of women's...
into the hot, humid air. When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?"
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We can solve big...
solve those problems but there are no miracles we have to want the solutions and cheerfully accept that the solving won't be easy thank you
Video examples
Anthony Bourdain and...
cheese, meat, fish-- they're all aged. Wine. So it's really about decay and rot, cheerful as that sounds. I never knew. Thank you.
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Why should you listen to...
Light, bright, and cheerful. It's some of the most familiar of all early 18th century music.
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Secrets of Toothpaste PIPE...
okay that goes cheerfully feel good what better
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
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H. G. Wells
English Author
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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Charlotte Bronte
British Novelist
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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Wayne Dyer
American Psychologist
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.
Quote examples
H. G. Wells
English Author
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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Alice Walker
American Author
Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
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Charlotte Bronte
British Novelist
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Blaise Pascal
French Philosopher
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
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Michel de Montaigne
French Philosopher
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
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