cheerful
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
her cheerful nature
Related & opposite
- happy also see
- glad also see
- depressing antonym
- cheerfulness attribute
- cheerfulness derivation
- beaming similar to
- beamish similar to
- blithesome similar to
- perky similar to
- gay similar to
- chipper similar to
Sense 2 adjective
pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
Related & opposite
- blitheness derivation
- optimistic similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | happy |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | glad |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | depressing |
| 1 | attribute | Related & opposite | cheerfulness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerfulness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | beaming |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | beamish |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | blithesome |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | perky |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | gay |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | chipper |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blitheness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | optimistic |