Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing or suggesting good spirits; cheerful: a cheery hello.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Showing cheerfulness or good spirits; blithe; gay; sprightly; jocund: as, a cheery tone of voice; always cheery and in good humor.
- Having power to make gay; promoting cheerfulness; enlivening.
- Synonyms Cheerful, Cheery. When cheerful means producing cheer, it is only by what seems distinct metonymy, as in such phrases as ‘the cheerful beams of the sun,’ ‘a cheerful fire.’ Cheery is coming into increasing use, representing cheerfulness in its more active forms or manifestations, and especially that cheerfulness which is contagious.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Displaying evident cheerfulness; cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer
Examples
“He spoke in what he called his cheery way, but Beth had begun to feel that there was another word which would express his manner better, and now it occurred to her.”
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius
“Kat, cheery is a good word -- it is a pretty nice thing to have greet me in the kitchen every morning!”
“The girl nodded, and as Microby Dandeline scrambled up over the wheel and settled herself beside her upon the board that served as a seat, she called a cheery good-by, and clucked to the horses.”
“The nurse called a cheery greeting to a young man in a beribboned cap, and he whistled in reply.”
“From time to time I poked my head out into the rain, and called cheery encouragement to the reinforcements, or sent messages to Havelock - I remember one of them was that Delhi had fallen at last, and that old Johnny Nicholson had bought a bullet, poor devil.”
“From time to time I poked my head out into the rain, and called cheery encouragement to the reinforcements, or sent messages to Havelock — I remember one of them was that Delhi had fallen at last, and that old Johnny Nicholson had bought a bullet, poor devil.”
“Oh, come here this minute, every one of you," called a cheery voice, and Nina Earl stepped through an opening in the hedge.”
“Peggy and Polly hung over the rail calling cheery farewells to Durand and Lowell and telling the others that they would never forgive them if they did not win the trophy.”
“Marshal Stone called a cheery greeting, the while his horse dropped its head to drink.”
“She crossed the firebreak and rode up over the ridge calling her cheery "Hoo-hoo-hoo!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cheery’.
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Words describing singing voices
mellifluous, gravelly, rusty bathtub, velvet fog, howling, laconic, fluttering, quavery, hypnotic, stilted, lilting, sonorous and 47 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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Happy, happy, joy, joy.
Feel good words.
great pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation, rejoicing, happiness, gladness, exhilaration, exuberance, bliss, felicity and 95 more...
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rudabeckia's Words
cross, wholly, lobe, sauce, quarrel, horrid, wooly, chutney, cheery, starling, vex, woolen and 67 more...
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Adjectives
First position in adj 'young' noun band names formula
inscrutable, libidinous, malodorous, outlandish, meticulous, robust, dour, canny, clamorous, lecherous, strapping, diligent and 28 more...
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