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# cheerful

«cheerful» in Mova's school dictionary: **happy and in a good mood, and shows it with smiles and a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (cheerful, more cheerful, most cheerful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cheerful person is happy and in a good mood, and shows it with smiles and a friendly manner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#m1)

2) A cheerful place, colour or song is bright and pleasant and makes you feel happy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In feelings lessons cheerful is a happy word; in writing lessons, it describes characters and settings («cheerful yellow curtains»). In everyday life, a cheerful helper or greeting makes others feel good. Phrases: «a cheerful smile», «cheerful colours», «bright and cheerful».

### examples

- She gave me a cheerful smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x1)
- The classroom was bright and cheerful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x2)
- He is always cheerful in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x3)
- We sang a cheerful song on the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x4)
- The cheerful postman waved to everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x5)
- Yellow and orange are cheerful colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x6)
- Even when it rained, Grandma stayed cheerful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x7)
- A cheerful «hello» can make someone's day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x8)
- He was so brave and cheerful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/#x9)

### note

One l at the end: cheerful (not «cheerfull»). Adverb: cheerfully; noun: cheerfulness. Opposite: gloomy, miserable, sad. Similar: happy, jolly, merry.

### In the corpora

- [The car's owners are «hungry, talkative, and gay» (gay = cheerful, in the old meaning).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/21/)
- ["Celebration of life" means a funeral or memorial service with a cheerful mood.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/14/)
- [The word "colourful" makes the swearing sound almost cheerful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/39-pardon-my-french/3/)
- [hayDA! means let's go! or off we go!, with a cheerful old Ukrainian feel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/13-grannys-a-little-more-festival-food-come-on/10/)
- [A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.423/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cheerful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.