Entry Word: cheerful

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 having or showing a good mood or disposition <a cheerful person who is always fun to work with and a pleasure to be around>

Synonyms blithe, blithesome, bright, buoyant, cheery, chipper, gay, gladsome, lightsome, sunny, upbeat

Related Words hopeful, optimistic, sanguine; jaunty, lively, perky, sprightly, vivacious; carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned; boon, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful; glad, happy, pleased

Near Antonyms dull, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; blue, dejected, depressed, heavyhearted, melancholy, sorrowful; discontented, disgruntled, unhappy

Antonyms dour, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen

2 serving to lift oneʼs spirits <a hospital with sunny, cheerful rooms that are designed to make a patientʼs stay as pleasant as possible>

Synonyms bright, cheering, cheery, gay, glad

Related Words gladdening, heartening, heartwarming; gleaming, radiant, sparkling

Near Antonyms discouraging, disheartening; colorless, drab, dull, lackluster, lusterless

Antonyms bleak, cheerless, dark, depressing, dismal, dreary, gloomy, gray (also grey)