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Cheerful vs Frolicking - What's the difference?

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Cheerful is a related term of frolicking.


As an adjective cheerful

is noticeably happy and optimistic.

As a verb frolicking is

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As a noun frolicking is

the act of one who frolics.

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

    frolicking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who frolics.
  • * (Herman Melville)
    • He resolutely set his beard against their boyish frolickings , and often held forth like an oracle concerning the vanity thereof.