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Cheerful vs Animated - What's the difference?

cheerful | animated | Synonyms |

Cheerful is a synonym of animated.


As adjectives the difference between cheerful and animated

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.

As a verb animated is

(animate).

cheerful

English

Alternative forms

* cheerfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Noticeably happy and optimistic.
  • Bright and pleasant.
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  • *: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.
  • Synonyms

    * bright * bubbly * ebullient * happy * joyful * optimistic * vivacious

    Antonyms

    * depressed * miserable * sad

    animated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)
  • Anagrams

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