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chearfully

chearfully is the obsolete form of cheerfully.

Meaning of cheerfully

Adverb

cheerfully (comparative more cheerfully, superlative most cheerfully)

  1. In a cheerful manner.
    • That principle carried out consistently and logically, makes the individual not a claimant upon society, but a benefiter of it. He contributes whatever talent, natural or acquired, he may have, cheerfully to the promotion of the common good, […]1849, William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley, The Christian Remembrancer, volume 17, page 217

Synonyms of chearfully

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Forms of chearfully

comparativemore chearfully
superlativemost chearfully

Origin of chearfully

From chearful + -ly.

Questions about chearfully

What is chearfully the obsolete form of?
Chearfully is the obsolete form of cheerfully.

Words near chearfully in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chearfully (page history and authors); cheerfully (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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