单词 | cheery |
释义 | cheeryadj. 1. Cheerful, merry, happy; esp. jovial or lively in appearance or behaviour. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] blithe971 gladOE blithemod1065 jollya1350 well begonea1425 well-cheered1435 hearty1440 cheery1448 cheerfula1477 chereful1486 unsweera1500 cheerly1565 riant1567 hilaire1575 light-spirited1581 undistempered1589 comfortablea1593 well-humoured1600 good-humoured1604 rident1609 hoddy1664 chicket1682 mellow1711 blithesome1724 in spirits1747 winsome1787 hilarious1823 resilient1830 blithe-hearted1848 cheero1903 bucked1907 cheerio1918 1448 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) i. 61 (MED) He was a passynge gladde man, chery, hardely. 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. H.iiijv Euil versefyers mocked be, yet haue they to theire ioy, Whilste theye indite, and reade theire toyes, moste chearie, and moste coy. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions ix. 55 To be sent awaie with a cutting checke: or to be bid tarie, with a cheary contenaunce. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Lie To say a thing with a merrie countenance, cheerie visage, looke full of glee. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 5 Apr. (1971) V. 111 I find him pretty cheery over he was yesterday. a1701 C. Sedley Toper in Wks. (1722) II. 27 Let's tope and be merry, Be jolly and cheery. 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. ii. 8 The Corporal with cheary eye. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 91 She had..a stout cheery farmer for a husband. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxvi. 202 Endeavouring to speak..in a cheery voice. 1875 Mrs. Randolph Wild Hyacinth I. 95 You will be in a cheerier mood to-morrow. 1905 Athenæum 5 Aug. 173/3 A dozen cheery Austrian or Swabian tourists. 1964 N. Austral. Monthly Dec. 8 We..swapped any news..and with a cheery ‘Too-roo’ we were off again. 1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. iii. 14/6 The mood on Wall Street is no cheerier. 2003 Irish Times 20 Dec. b5/7 Louis Saha bounds in with a handshake as warm as his cheery smile. 2. Conducive to happiness, contentment, or good spirits; cheering; = cheerful adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adjective] > cheering or suggestive of cheerfulness comfortative1377 comfortive1377 cheerfula1440 comfortablec1460 cheering1549 sunny1565 sunshine1594 heartsome1596 sprightly1598 livening1605 brightening1642 exhilarating1644 encheering1652 cheery1655 spiriting1671 sunshiny1686 riant1720 sonsy1721 genial1747 cheerfulizing1840 cheer-up1846 enlivening1862 exhilarative1864 exhilarant1866 exhilaratory1871 heartening1895 1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad i. l. 11 They ask (and still the cheerie Bowle goes round) In the Arabick-language, Whence The Fleet? 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week v. 9 Come, let us hye, and quaff a cheery Bowl. a1796 R. Burns in G. Thomson Select Coll. Sc. Airs for Voice (1799) iv. 79 How cheery, thro' her shortening day, Is autumn in her weeds o' yellow. 1863 D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood ii. 92 The memory of a cheery, sunlit home-room, with its pictures on the wall, and its flame upon the hearth. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 175 She was..a kind of cheery sunshine in those otherwise Egyptian days. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 77/2 The manufacturers..have a handy little booklet of cheery red and white labels for your..jams and jellies. 1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 15/4 (advt.) Cheery bright house, ideal for first timers. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 July viii. 7/1 There might be..cheery colorful plants next to landing areas. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic, as cheery-faced, cheery-hearted, cheery-voiced, etc. ΚΠ 1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. vii. 28 Being, as I have told your honour, an open, cheary hearted lad,..he took a chair,..placed it close to her at the table, and sat down. 1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. iii. 49 Her father was a cheery-hearted man. 1867 M. A. Livermore in J. C. B. Hoge Boys in Blue 317 I met a cheery-faced lad, dressed in the army uniform. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 2 There is one pleasant-faced, cheery mannered Divine. a1892 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1898) 55/2 I can see his sickle gleaming, Cheery-voiced, can hear him teaming. 1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 68 The wren upon the tree-stump carolled cheery-voiced. 1943 Washington Post 25 Nov. 22 Let us hail the approach of a cheery-spirited Christmas. 2007 Bayside (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 26 Feb. 8 There's no doubting this cheery-eyed man could break into song at any moment. C2. Complementary, as cheery-looking, cheery-sounding. ΚΠ 1831 J. Banim Smuggler III. 67 Boulogne, the most cheery-looking, if not the gayest town—of its size (nay, make no exception)—from itself to Paris. 1856 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 855/1 The maid..has left it at our door with the delicatest tap, and a cheery sounding, ‘Please, Sir, 'ot water, Sir.’ 1878 A. Brassey Voy. Sunbeam ix. 148 Cheery looking little dogs,..barking vigorously. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. ix. 165 A cheery-looking hobbit. 2009 J. N. Brown & A. Swain Prof. Recruiter's Handbk. vi. 124 Don't leave a cheery-sounding message only for them to call back to bad news. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1448 |
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