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Adjectives (4)
cheerful
adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
cheerful
adj. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be"
upbeat, pollyannaish
adj. pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
Fuzzynyms (44)
impertinent, saucy, irreverent, pert
adj. characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality; "a certain irreverent gaiety and ease of manner"
lively, animated
adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"
lively, sprightly, canty
adj. full of vitality: "`canty' is a British term"
alert, awake, aware
adj. not unconscious; especially having become conscious; "the patient is now awake and alert"
active
adj. characterized by energetic activity; "an active toddler"; "active as a gazelle"; "an active man is a man of action"
alert
adj. very attentive or observant; "an alert and responsive baby is a joy"; "caught by a couple of alert cops"; "alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came"; "constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty"
alive, animated
adj. (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief"
sparkling, scintillating, sparkly, bubbling, effervescent, vivacious
adj. marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
optimistic
adj. expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view"
glad
adj. showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy; "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded"; "gave a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad news"; "a glad occasion"
elated, jubilant, joyful, gleeful
adj. full of high-spirited delight; "a joyful heart"
elated
adj. exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited"
gladdened, exhilarated, happy
adj. made joyful; "the sun and the wind on his back made him feel exhilarated--happy to be alive"
jesting, jocose, jocular, jocund, joking
adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
jolly, merry, jovial
adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh"
bright
adj. emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room"
lively
adj. characterized by energetic activity; "a lively baby"
sanguine, optimistic
adj. pertaining to optimism
Synonyms (10)
happy
adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"
happy, pleased
adj. experiencing or expressing pleasure or joy; made happy: "glad that they succeeded"
positive, affirmative
adj. expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook"
bullish
adj. expecting a rise in prices
rosy, rose-colored, rose-coloured
adj. reflecting optimism; "a rosy future"; "looked at the world through rose-colored glasses"
starry-eyed
adj. unrealistically or naively optimistic; "a starry-eyed reformer"; "starry-eyed idealism"
Antonyms (28)
cheerless, uncheerful
adj. lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
unhappy, sad
adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
black, dark, depressing, dispiriting, grim
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
dreary, disconsolate, drear, joyless
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
gloomy, dismal, sorry
adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited
adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
somber, sombre, solemn
adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
woeful
adj. affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier
sad
adj. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
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