cheery

1. 1.

   bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer

   “a cheery hello”

   “a gay sunny room”

   “a sunny smile”

   Synonymsgaysunny

   Similarcheerful

Other forms of cheery

comparative or superlative

cheerier

comparative or superlative

cheeriest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheery

What does cheery mean?

cheery means "bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer".

How many syllables are in cheery?

cheery has 2 syllables: cheer-y. The stress falls on "cheer". In IPA it is /ˈtʃɪɹi/.

What is another word for cheery?

Close synonyms include gay, sunny. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheery a common word?

cheery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.