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
   • He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick.1913, W[illiam] D[ean] Howells, chapter XXIII, in New Leaf Mills: A Chronicle, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 150

   Synonyms:

   cheery, bright, bubbly, cheerly, ebullient, happy, joyful, merry, optimistic, vivacious

   Antonyms:

   depressed, gloomy, miserable, sad

2. Bright and pleasant.
   • They enjoyed a cheerful room.
   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC