cheerful

English

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

cheerful (comparative more cheerful, superlative most cheerful)

Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Bright and pleasant.
They enjoyed a cheerful room.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619:
  
  At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

happy

Arabic: مَسْرُور‎ (masrūr), فَرِح‎ (ar) (fariḥ)
Armenian: ցնծալից (hy) (cʿncalicʿ)
Bulgarian: бодър (bg) (bodǎr), весел (bg) (vesel)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 快樂 (zh), 快乐 (zh) (kuàilè), 愉快 (zh) (yúkuài)
Crimean Tatar: şeñ
Czech: radostný (cs) m, šťastný (cs) m
Danish: fornøjet, munter
Dutch: blijmoedig (nl), tevreden (nl)
Finnish: hilpeä (fi), iloinen (fi)
French: joyeux (fr), content (fr), de bonne humeur
German: fröhlich (de), vergnügt (de)
Greek:
Ancient: ἱλαρός (hilarós)
Irish: grianmhar, misniúil, spéiriúil
Italian: allegro (it), felice (it), gioioso (it)
Japanese: 楽しげな (たのしげな, tanoshige na), 陽気な (ja) (ようきな, yōki na), 嬉しい (ja) (うれしい, ureshii)

Korean: 기쁘다 (ko) (gippeuda)
Latin: laetus (la), gaudens, hilaris (la)
Latvian: jautrs
Maori: hurō, hihiko, manahau, harikoa, takaahuareka
Norman: rêjoui
Portuguese: alegre (pt)
Russian: весёлый (ru) (vesjólyj)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: cuntèntu, allirgu

Logudorese: uffànu, cuntèntu, allègru
Sassarese: cuntèntu, allègru
Spanish: animado (es)
Swahili: damisi (sw)
Tagalog: masayahin
Vietnamese: vui vẻ (vi)
Westrobothnian: blijdtjúkkt

bright

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