Cheering; cheerful. rare.

= comfortative, adj.

Conducive to happiness, contentment, or good spirits; cheering, comforting, uplifting; spec. (of colours, surroundings, etc.) bright and pleasant.

Strengthening or supporting (morally or spiritually); encouraging, inspiriting, reassuring, cheering. Obsolete or archaic.

That makes a person cheerful; comforting, encouraging, uplifting.

figurative. Expressing, evoking, or characterized by joy or happiness; cheering; bright; (of a person or a person's temperament) cheerful…

figurative. Expressing, evoking, or characterized by joy, happiness, or prosperity; cheering; bright; (of a person or a person's temperament)…

That makes a person feel glad or cheerful; emotionally uplifting or comforting. Cf. heartening, adj., heartwarming, adj.

Of a thing. Having qualities or properties suggestive of energy, vigour, animation, etc.; lively.

That enlivens, that gives life. Also: that cheers. Cf. liven, v. 1b.

That makes something clearer, more excellent, more positive, etc.; enlightening; enhancing, improving; cheering, enlivening. Chiefly (and recorded…

That exhilarates; cheering, enlivening, inspiriting.

Conducive to happiness, contentment, or good spirits; cheering; = cheerful, adj. 1.

That instils spirit; inspirational, inspiring, heartening. Cf. dispiriting, adj.

figurative and in figurative contexts. Expressing, evoking, or characterized by joy or happiness; cheering; cheerful; = sunny, adj. 4.

Of a thing, esp. a landscape, place, etc.: having a pleasant aspect, agreeable to the sight, looking bright or cheerful.

Of a thing: pleasant, cheerful, appealing; comfortable; ample, abundant.

Of an event, circumstance, etc.: cheering, enlivening, heartening; convivial, congenial.

That cheers or is intended to cheer someone up; cheering; comforting.

That enlivens; in the senses of the verb.

Tending to produce exhilaration.

That exhilarates; exhilarating.

Having the effect of exhilarating.

That heartens (in various senses of the verb); (now) esp. encouraging, cheering.