Cheerful vs Graceful - What's the difference?
cheerful | graceful |
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.
Having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1
As adjectives the difference between cheerful and graceful
is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while graceful is having or showing grace in movement, shape, or proportion.cheerful
English
Alternative forms
* cheerfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* bright * bubbly * ebullient * happy * joyful * optimistic * vivaciousAntonyms
* depressed * miserable * sadgraceful
English
Alternative forms
* gracefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}