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cheerfull

cheerfull is the archaic form 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 cheerfull

comparativemore cheerfull
superlativemost cheerfull

Questions about cheerfull

What is cheerfull the archaic form of?
Cheerfull is the archaic form of cheerful.

Words near cheerfull in the dictionary

  1. cheerfulest
  2. cheerfulize
  3. cheerfulized
  4. cheerfulizes
  5. cheerfulizing
  6. cheerfull
  7. cheerfuller
  8. cheerfullest
  9. cheerfullier
  10. cheerfully
  11. cheerfulness

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