Synonyms: cheerful
Definition: being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
Usage: her cheerful nature; a cheerful greeting; a cheerful room; as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be
Definition: cheerful and bright
Usage: a beaming smile; a glad May morning
Similar words: beamish, smiling, twinkly
Definition: smiling with happiness or optimism
Usage: Come to my arms, my beamish boy!- Lewis Carroll; a room of smiling faces; a round red twinkly Santa Claus
Similar words: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome
Definition: carefree and happy and lighthearted
Usage: was loved for her blithe spirit; a merry blithesome nature; her lighthearted nature; trilling songs with a lightsome heart
Similar words: chirpy, buoyant, perky
Definition: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness
Usage: buoyant spirits; his quick wit and chirpy humor; looking bright and well and chirpy; a perky little widow in her 70s
Similar words: sunny, cheery, gay
Definition: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
Usage: a cheery hello; a gay sunny room; a sunny smile
Similar words: jaunty, debonair, debonaire, chipper
Definition: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
Usage: looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit- Frances G. Patton; life that is gay, brisk, and debonair- H.M.Reynolds; walked with a jaunty step; a jaunty optimist
Synonyms: cheerful, upbeat, pollyannaish
Definition: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic
Similar words: optimistic
Definition: expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
Usage: in an optimistic mood; optimistic plans; took an optimistic view