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Cheerful vs Cheerly - What's the difference?

cheerful | cheerly |

As adjectives the difference between cheerful and cheerly

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while cheerly is cheerful.

As an adverb cheerly is

cheerfully.

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

    cheerly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) cheerful
  • * 1599 , , II. vi. 13:
    • Thou lookest cheerly , and I'll be with / thee quickly.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) cheerfully
  • * 1597 , , I. iii. 66:
    • But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.

    Anagrams

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