Cheery

Definition: Cheery

Cheery

Adjective

1. Bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cheery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Cheery

Cheerfulness

Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.

Crosswords: Cheery

Everything is so bright and cheery and ruffly (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

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Books

• Cheery Classroom Clips: Apple (Grades PreK-2) (reference)

• Easter Creations: 8 Cute and Quaint Decorations That Help Bring in Cheery Easter Spirit (reference)

• Face the Music (The Cheery Bim Band Series Number 9) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cheery, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Mango Cheery Plaid Dishtowels, Set of 3, Blue (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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It wasn't all the pastoral delights that were making Arthur feel so cheery, though

Bossuet was a cheery fellow who was unlucky

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Beginning with "cheery": cheery-bung, cheery-faced, cheery-hearted, cheery-little-girl, cheery-looking, cheery-pip.

Albanian

i gëzueshëm (cheerful, festal, festive, frolic, frolicsome, gleeful, hilarious, joyful, mirthful), gazmor (cheerful, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing, upbeat). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдечен (cardiac, cordial, expansive, genial, hearty, kind, lusty, mellow, openhearted, pressing, warm), светъл (auspicious, bright, cheerful, clear, fair, fair haired, fine, light, liquid, lucent, lucid, pale, relucent, rosy, unshadowed, vivid, white), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), ободряващ (recreational, recreative, tonic), жизнерадостен (debonair, elastic, genial, high-spirited, jaunty, sanguine). (various references)

Czech

radostný (blithe, cheerful, exhilarating, festive, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, rorty). (various references)

Farsi 

سرحال (Game, Jink, Peppy, Pert, Trig, Vascular, Wholesome), شاد (Debonair, Exultant, Glad, Happy, Joyful, Merry), دلگشا (Riant), بابشاشت . (various references)

French

heureuse (cheerily), gai (cheerful, chirpy). (various references)

German

heiter (alacritous, amusing, blithe, bright, brightly, buoyant, buoyantly, carefree, cheerful, cheerfully, clear, fair, fine, funny, gay, gayly, genially, glad, happily, happy, humorous, humorously, jocund, jovial, jovially, lighthearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, mirthfully, sanguine, serene, sunny, tranquil, untroubled), froh (blithe, cheerily, glad, gladly, happy, joyful, joyous, lucky, mirthful, pleased). (various references)

Greek 

χαρωπόσ (blithesome, boon, cheerful, jocund, jolly), ζωηρόσ (bobbish, bouncing, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, chipper, crisp, dapper, dashing, frisky, gay, grig, jaunty, lightsome, live, lively, lurid, mercurial, peppy, perky, poignant, quick, racy, rompish, smacking, smart, snappish, snappy, spanking, sparkish, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, volatile, zippy), εγκάρδιοσ (cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, whole-hearted). (various references)

Hungarian

felvidító (cheering, exhilarating), derûs (gamesome, genial, good humoured, good-humored, hilarious, jocund, jovial, serene). (various references)

Indonesian

periang (vivacious). (various references)

Italian

lieto (cheerily, delighted, glad, happy, merry, pleased, regales, regally), allegro (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

浮き浮き (buoyant, cheerful, lighthearted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うきうき (buoyant, cheerful, lighthearted). (various references)

Pig Latin

eerychay.(various references)

Portuguese

que anima, alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, chirpy, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references)

Russian 

веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), бодрый (alive, buoyant, cheerful, chipper, erect, fresh, hale and hearty, peppy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

živahno (merrily), živahan (abuzz, active, effervescent, live, mercurial, merry, perky, pert, spirited, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish

jovial (cheerful, friendly, gay, jolly, jovial, rollicking), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy), acogedor (cosy, cozy, friendly, homely, snug). (various references)

Swedish

munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, frolic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly), ljuvlig (delectable, delightful, dulcet, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, luscious), glad (bonny, bright, canty, cheerful, Chirk, chirpy, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, happy, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased). (various references)

Turkish

neşeyle (cheerfully, cock-a-hoop, gaily, genially, in high spirits, jauntily, merrily, sprightly), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), neşe saçarak, neşe saçan (cheerful, cheerfully), keyifli (blissful, bucked, cheerful, cheerfully, cosy, delighted, elevated, fit as a fiddle, gay, in a good mood, jolly, jovial, merry, pleasant, pleased, rejoicing, up), şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, convivial, eupeptic, frolicsome, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive). (various references)

Ukrainian

радісний (cock-a-hoop, elate, elated, festal, glad, gleeful, heartwarming, joyful, joyous, jubilant, roseate, rosy), веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), бадьорий (alive, alive and kicking, bobbish, cheerful, chipper, sprightly), підбадьорливий (encouraging), пожвавлений (active, animate, animated, lively). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), hân hoan (elate, elated, exultant, gleeful, gleesome, joyful, triumphant). (various references)

Misspellings

"Cheery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceery, Cezeri, Chamery, Chaudrey, Chaudry, chaverim, Cheere, cheero, cheety, cheezy, cheiro, cheiy, Chenery, cheny, cher, chere, cheri, cherie, Chery, chezer, Chezeris, Chezery, Chiari, Chinery, choiry, chorey, cleery, Echeverry, Heery, keery, kery, Mchenry. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reechy.

-1 letter: cheer.

-2 letters: cere, eche, eery, eyer, eyre, here, yech.

-3 letters: cee, cry, ere, eye, her, hey, rec, ree, rye, yeh.

-4 letters: eh, er, he, re, ye.

+1 letter: cheerly, lechery.

+2 letters: cheerily, coryphee, cyphered, screechy.

+3 letters: archenemy, archetype, coherency, coryphees, hydrocele, hypercube, hyperemic, teacherly, treachery.

+4 letters: aerenchyma, archetypes, bellyacher, bewitchery, cheerfully, cherrylike, chokeberry, coherently, debauchery, heterocyst, hydroceles, hyperacute, hypercubes, hyperpneic, hyperspace, hypocenter, hysteretic, keypuncher, wretchedly.

+5 letters: aerenchymas, bellyachers, chancellery, cheerlessly, cherrystone, chokecherry, erythrocyte, eurythermic, heretically, heterocycle, heterocysts, heterolytic, heterotypic, huckleberry, hyperactive, hypercharge, hypermetric, hypermnesic, hyperspaces, hypocenters, keypunchers, lecherously, nephrectomy.