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chearful

chearful is the archaic spelling of cheerful.

Meaning of cheerful

Adjective

cheerful (comparative more cheerful or cheerfuler or cheerfuller, superlative most cheerful or cheerfulest or cheerfullest)

  1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.
    • Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with
      Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them.1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 32
  2. Bright and pleasant.
    • They enjoyed a cheerful room.

Forms of chearful

comparativemore chearful
superlativemost chearful

Words formed from chearful

Questions about chearful

What is chearful the archaic spelling of?
Chearful is the archaic spelling of cheerful.

Words near chearful in the dictionary

  1. cheapy
  2. chear
  3. cheare
  4. cheared
  5. cheares
  6. chearful
  7. chearfully
  8. chearfulness
  9. chearing
  10. chears
  11. Cheas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chearful (page history and authors); cheerful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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