cheery
/ˈtʃɪəri
/adjective (cheerier, cheeriest)
Happy and optimistic: a cheery smile...
- Soft music would now be heard on the background, and happy and cheery voices as well.
- He loves the wilds of Upper Wharfedale, where the locals always greet him and his crew with a cheery wave and a smile.
- He is always ready with a cheery smile and wave, and is famous for sheltering passengers with his own umbrella.
Synonyms
jolly, happy, merry, bright, cheerful, glad, sunny, joyful, joyous, light-hearted, in high spirits, sparkling, bubbly, exuberant, ebullient, cock-a-hoop, elated, blissful, ecstatic, euphoric, gleeful, breezy, airy, sprightly, jaunty, animated, radiant, smiling, grinning, laughing, mirthful, frolicsome;
happy-go-lucky, in good spirits, carefree, unworried, untroubled, without a care in the world, full of the joys of spring;
buoyant, optimistic, hopeful, full of hope, positive, content
informal upbeat, chipper, chirpy, smiley, peppy, sparky, zippy, zingy, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of beans, full of vim and vigour
North American informal peart
dated gay
literary gladsome, jocund, blithe, blithesome
archaic of good cheer
Derivatives
cheeriness
/ noun ...- That number rings fifteen times before the human pops-on with practiced cheeriness: ‘How may I help you?’
- In place of anything resembling cheeriness he has a wickedly dark humour, a gift for satire and an imagination powerful enough to leap the space-time continuum in his fiction.
- One justification for his cheeriness was the knowledge that performing well against the world champion would enhance the validity of his comeback.