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cheerful

adj
/ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/UK/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/US/ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fəl/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from chereful

Definitions

  1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.

    • 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.

  2. Bright and pleasant.

    • They enjoyed a cheerful room.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cheerful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01cheerful02optimistic03conflicts04conflict05disagree06agree07harmony08pleasing09cheer

A definitional loop anchored at cheerful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at cheerful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA