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Word entry · 8 letters

cheerful

Best crossword clue

"In good spirits"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈt͡ʃɪəfl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceefhlruStarts with CEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2H3E4E5R6F7U8L

Definitions

  1. being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits

Word origin

From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer + -ful.

Used in a sentence

  • Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them.
  • He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick.
  • The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race.

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