cheerfulとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer +‎ -ful.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪəfl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl/
• (obsolete) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fəl/, /ˈt͡ʃɜː(ɹ)fʊl/
• ハイフネーション: cheer‧ful
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)fʊl, -ɪə(ɹ)fəl

形容詞

cheerful (comparative more cheerful or cheerfuler or cheerfuller, superlative most cheerful or cheerfulest or cheerfullest)

1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.

   Synonyms: cheery, bright, bubbly, cheerly, ebullient, happy, joyful, merry, optimistic, vivacious; see also Thesaurus:happy

   Antonyms: depressed, gloomy, miserable, sad

   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part I, page 32:

     Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with
     Gloomy forebodings of illl, and see only ruin before them.

   • 1913, W[illiam] D[ean] Howells, chapter XXIII, in New Leaf Mills: A Chronicle, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC, page 150:

     He moped, she felt, as the time went by, and he was cheerfuler only when some letter, full of hope without expectation, came from Dick.

   • 1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:

     The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race.

2. Bright and pleasant.

   They enjoyed a cheerful room.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     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.

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