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Definition of Cheerful
Cheerful

Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.

Related Definitions:
Animated, Cheering, Contented, Good, Happy, Having, Joy, Joyful, Lively, Or, Showing, Willing


Cheerful Quotations

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
King Solomon

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Henry Van Dyke

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.
Alice Walker

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
George Matthew Adams

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
Stephen Fry

Cheerful Translations

cheerful in Afrikaans is vrolik
cheerful in Dutch is monter, lustig, vrolijk
cheerful in Finnish is iloinen
cheerful in French is jovial, gai
cheerful in Italian is pieno di gioia, festevole
cheerful in Latin is hilaris
cheerful in Norwegian is lystig


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