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cheery

/ˈt͡ʃɪɹi/UK/ˈt͡ʃɪəɹi/

cheery adjective: in a good mood, happy, cheerful.

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Adjective

cheery (comparative cheerier, superlative cheeriest)

  1. In a good mood, happy, cheerful.
    • The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome.1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222

cheery meaning in Malayalam

cheery in Malayalam

cheerful, happy, jolly
സന്തോഷമുള്ള, തുഷ്ട, തുഷ്ടം, തോഷിത, ഉന്മേഷവത്തായ, കുതൂഹല

Examples of cheery in a sentence

  • The people I met at the support group were a mixed bag: some were grouchy pessimists, and others were cheery do-gooders.
  • My grandfather was something of a micawber, never letting setbacks or misfortune drag down his cheery disposition.
  • We were the happiest, cheeriest bunch of crims in the whole prison.

All 17 example sentences with cheery

Forms of cheery

comparativecheerier
superlativecheeriest

Origin of cheery

From Middle English cheri, equivalent to cheer + -y.

Words formed from cheery

Words that rhyme with cheery

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Questions about cheery

What does cheery mean?
Cheery means in a good mood, happy, cheerful.
What is cheery in Malayalam?
Cheery in Malayalam is സന്തോഷമുള്ള, തുഷ്ട, തുഷ്ടം. See Cheery meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is cheery?
Cheery is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cheery?
Cheery is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪəɹi/ (UK).

Words near cheery in the dictionary

  1. cheers, big ears
  2. cheersed
  3. cheerses
  4. cheersing
  5. cheersome
  6. cheery
  7. cheery-bye
  8. chees
  9. chees and chaws
  10. cheesable
  11. cheese

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheery (page history and authors); cheery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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