cheerful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

2. 2
   adj

   Bright and pleasant.

   They enjoyed a cheerful room.

3. 3
   adj

   being full of or promoting cheer

4. 4
   adj

   pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

Etymology

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