From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcheerycheer‧y /ˈtʃɪəri $ ˈtʃɪri/ adjective HAPPYhappy or making you feel happy She gave me a cheery smile. He left them with a cheery wave. —cheerily adverb
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cheery• The text is helpful, and the maps are bright and cheery.• A cheery fire burned in the fireplace.• Her responses to the usual chorus of cheery greetings were half-hearted; all she could focus on was Vitor d'Arcos.• The jam around Samuel's mouth was like a big cheery grin, but his eyes remained sullen.• The woman behind the counter greeted us with a cheery hello.• The darkness gave way to cheery mood lighting.• The casual wink from you, the cheery salute from your buddy, the you-rascal-you smiles of recognition from your workmates.• I bounce a few more cheery sentences off her, but she has withdrawn into her shell.• "How wonderful, " he said, but his cheery tone sounded a bit forced.• She wrote back in an unusually cheery vein in-tended to demonstrate, I suppose, that she was mending her ways.cheery smile• Ace stood silently as the Doctor doffed his hat, and gave Mortimer a cheery smile.• She always had a cherry-red face, with cheery smile and was a great favourite with the youngsters of the area. 