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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cheerful \Cheer"ful\ (ch[=e]r"f[.u]l; 277), a.
     Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery;
     contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           To entertain a cheerful disposition.     --Shak.


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           The cheerful birds of sundry kind
           Do chant sweet music.                    --Spenser.
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           A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. --Macaulay.
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           This general applause and cheerful shout. --Shak.
  
     Syn: Lively; animated; gay; joyful; lightsome; gleeful;
          blithe; airy; sprightly; jocund; jolly; joyous;
          vivacious; buoyant; sunny; happy; hopeful.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cheerful
       adj 1: being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good
              spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting";
              "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to
              a hospital bed could be" [ant: {cheerless}]
       2: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: {pollyannaish},
           {upbeat}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  143 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheerful":
     Leibnizian, affable, agreeable, airy, amiable, amicable, animated,
     animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe,
     blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, buoyant, capering, carefree,
     cheering, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy,
     comfortable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, corky,
     couleur de rose, cozy, dancing, debonair, desirable, dulcet,
     elated, en rapport, encouraging, enjoyable, enlivening, eupeptic,
     euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, exuberant, fair,
     fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed,
     flushed with joy, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladdening,
     gladsome, gleeful, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful,
     gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heartening, high,
     homelike, homely, homey, homish, honeyed, hopeful, in good spirits,
     in high spirits, inspiring, inspiriting, intimate, invigorating,
     irrepressible, jaunty, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing,
     leaping, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, likable, lively,
     mellifluous, mellow, merry, millenarian, millennialistic, nice,
     of good cheer, optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian,
     perfectionist, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable,
     pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant,
     rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying,
     simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed,
     sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian,
     vivacious, welcome, winsome
  
  

















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