cheerful

adj

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

1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.

   “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.”

2. Bright and pleasant.

   “They enjoyed a cheerful room.”

   “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.”