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Cheerful vs Confident - What's the difference?

cheerful | confident |

As adjectives the difference between cheerful and confident

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As a noun confident is

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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

    confident

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very sure of something; positive
    • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
  • self-confident

    • Antonyms

    * (self-confident) insecure, self-destructive

    Synonyms

    * (self-confident) self-assured

    Related terms

    * confidant * confidante * confide * confidence * confidential * overconfident * self-confident

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Dryden)
    (South)
    (Webster 1913)

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