Cheerful vs Willingly - What's the difference?
cheerful | willingly |
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.
Of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.
As an adjective cheerful
is noticeably happy and optimistic.As an adverb willingly is
of one’s own free will; freely and spontaneously.cheerful
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Alternative forms
* cheerfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* bright * bubbly * ebullient * happy * joyful * optimistic * vivaciousAntonyms
* depressed * miserable * sadwillingly
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Adverb
(en-adv)- Now this is a process of the mind or thought, of which I would willingly know the foundation.