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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cheerful \Cheer"ful\ (ch[=e]r"f[.u]l; 277), adjective Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
To entertain a cheerful disposition. --Shak.
The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. --Spenser.
A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. --Macaulay.
This general applause and cheerful shout. --Shak.
Syn: Lively; animated; gay; joyful; lightsome; gleeful; blithe; airy; sprightly; jocund; jolly; joyous; vivacious; buoyant; sunny; happy; hopeful.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cheerful
adjective
1: 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" [ant: {cheerless}]
2: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: {pollyannaish}, {upbeat}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheerful": Leibnizian, affable, agreeable, airy, amiable, amicable, animated, animating, beaming, beatific, beatified, blessed, blissful, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, buoyant, capering, carefree, cheering, cheery, chiliastic, chirk, chirping, chirpy, chirrupy, comfortable, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, corky, couleur de rose, cozy, dancing, debonair, desirable, dulcet, elated, en rapport, encouraging, enjoyable, enlivening, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, exhilarating, exuberant, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, flushed, flushed with joy, friendly, gay, genial, glad, gladdening, gladsome, gleeful, glowing, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, happy, harmonious, heart-warming, heartening, high, homelike, homely, homey, homish, honeyed, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, inspiring, inspiriting, intimate, invigorating, irrepressible, jaunty, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughing, leaping, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome, likable, lively, mellifluous, mellow, merry, millenarian, millennialistic, nice, of good cheer, optimistic, peaceful, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, plain, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, purring, radiant, rewarding, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, simple, singing, smiling, smirking, snug, sparkling, starry-eyed, sunny, sweet, thrice happy, unpretending, upbeat, utopian, vivacious, welcome, winsome
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