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Cheerful vs Lightsome - What's the difference?

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Cheerful is a synonym of lightsome.


As adjectives the difference between cheerful and lightsome

is that cheerful is noticeably happy and optimistic while lightsome is emitting or manifesting light; luminous, radiant or lightsome can be upbeat; cheery; light graceful.

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

    lightsome

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Emitting or manifesting light; luminous, radiant.
  • *, III.7:
  • *:While in their mothers wombe enclosd they were, / Ere they into the lightsom world were brought, / In fleshly lust were mingled both yfere.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xlix:
  • *:This said, the smoky cloud was cleft and torn, / Which like a veil upon them stretched lay, // And up to open heav'n forthwith was borne, / And left the prince in view of lightsome day.
  • *1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p.105:
  • *:There came a day when he remembered the moment, when he regretted that he had not ridden off into the buoyant midst of these lightsome elements.
  • *2006 , Goswin (of Bossut.), Martinus Cawley, Send me God :
  • *:If any find it incredible that Ida be even outwardly so lightsome that she saw clearly in the night, let them answer this question.
  • *2009 , David Rooney, The wine of certitude :
  • *:The literal sense of the Greek is: “If therefore thy whole body is lightsome', having no part darksome, thy whole body will be ' lightsome , as when the lamp lightens thee with its flashing.”
    • Antonyms
    * (l)
    Derived terms
    * lightsomely * lightsomeness

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Upbeat; cheery; light graceful.
  • * 1983 , Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic experience :
    • Reality is lightsome', that is, light and graceful.... Moreover, the play, the ' lightsome character of reality, would be misunderstood if this dimension were to be severed from what really makes a play a play, [...]
  • * 1999 , Thomas Middleton, David M. Bevington, Kathleen McLuskie, Plays on women - Page 69 :
    • When I was of your youth, I was lightsome and quick two years before I was married.
    Derived terms
    * lightsomely * lightsomeness