Synonyms of the word

cheerful

• adj. Noticeably happy and optimistic.
• adj. Bright and pleasant.

beaming

• adj. Smilingly happy; showing happy emotion.
• v. present participle of beam.
• n. The act of someone or something that beams.

beamish

• adj. (nonce word) Radiantly beaming; happy; cheerful.

blithe

• adj. (dated or literary) Happy, cheerful.
• adj. Indifferent, careless, showing a lack of concern.

blithesome

• adj. happy or spriteful, carefree.

buoyant

• adj. having buoyancy; able to float.
• adj. lighthearted and lively.

cheering

• v. present participle of cheer.
• n. A cheer.

cheery

• adj. (often sarcastic) In a good mood, happy, cheerful.

chipper

• adj. Exhibiting a lively optimism; in high spirits, cheerful.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, slang) A fish and chip shop, or more generally a cheap fast food outlet, typically…
• n. (slang) A deep frier.
• n. (US) A machine that reduces organic matter to compost; depending on size, whole tree trunks are reduced…
• n. (US, smoking) An occasional tobacco user, or more generally drug user.
• n. A machine that chips potatoes ready to be fried and made into chips.
• n. A company that manufactures potato chips/potato crisps.
• n. Someone who chips (e.g. wood).
• n. (sports) A player who chips the ball.
• v. (Britain, dialect) To chirp or chirrup.

chirpy

• adj. In a good mood; happy and energetic.
• adj. Making chirping noises.
• n. An electronic device which uses a piezoelectric transducer to make chirping noise, often designed to be…
• n. Specifically, a version of the above designed to be thrown for placement. Similar to a throwie.

debonair

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
• adj. Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
• adj. (especially of men) Charming, confident, and carefully dressed.

debonaire

• adj. Alternative spelling of debonair.

gay

• adj. (dated) Happy, joyful, and lively.
• adj. (dated) Festive, bright, or colourful.
• adj. (obsolete) Sexually promiscuous (of either gender).
• adj. Homosexual.
• adj. A pejorative.
• adj. (of a dog's tail) Upright or curved over the back.
• n. (chiefly in plural or attributive) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian.
• n. (obsolete) An ornament.
• v. (transitive, dated, uncommon) To make happy or cheerful.
• v. (transitive, uncommon) To cause (an issue, especially AIDS) to be associated with homosexual people.
• n. The letter —, which stands for the sound /ɡ/, in Pitman shorthand.

glad

• adj. Pleased, happy, gratified.
• adj. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
• v. (transitive) To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.

happy

• adj. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind,…
• adj. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.
• adj. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
• adj. Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous.
• adj. (as a suffix to a noun) Favoring or inclined to use.
• adj. (rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express themselves (often followed by…
• n. preceded by the: happy people as a group.
• n. (informal, rare) A happy event, thing, person, etc.
• v. (intransitive) Often followed by up: to become happy; to brighten up, to cheer up.
• v. (transitive) Often followed by up: to make happy; to brighten, to cheer, to enliven.

jaunty

• adj. Airy; showy; finical; hence, characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
• adj. Dapper or stylish.
• adj. Ostentatiously self-confident.

light-hearted

• adj. Alternative spelling of lighthearted.

lighthearted

• adj. Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.
• adj. Enjoyable lack of seriousness, not grave.

lightsome

• adj. Characterised by light; luminous; emitting or manifesting light; radiant.
• adj. Upbeat; cheery; light graceful.

optimistic

• adj. Expecting the best in all possible ways.
• adj. (computing) Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking…

perky

• adj. Lively or enthusiastic.
• adj. Standing upright; firm.

pollyannaish

• adj. Alternative form of Pollyannaish.

smiling

• adj. That smiles or has a smile.
• n. The action of the verb to smile.
• v. present participle of smile.

sunny

• adj. (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
• adj. (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
• adj. (figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
• adj. Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
• adv. (US, regional) sunny side up.
• n. A sunfish.

twinkly

• adj. that twinkles.

upbeat

• adj. Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
• adj. Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc.
• n. An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.