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Cheerful vs Canty - What's the difference?

cheerful | canty |

As adjectives the difference between cheerful and canty

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while canty is lively; cheerful; merry; brisk.

cheerful

English

Alternative forms

* cheerfull (archaic)

Adjective

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

    canty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • lively; cheerful; merry; brisk
  • * Oft have ye heard my canty strains; But now, what else for me remains But tales of woe; — , "Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson", 1790
  • *
    • My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.

    Derived terms

    * cantily