| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
Antonyms: |
depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
Antonyms: |
depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
Synonyms: |
Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
Antonyms: |
despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
| Main Entry: | optimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of having positive beliefs |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguineness, sureness, trust |
Antonyms: |
doubt, gloom, hopelessness, pessimism |
| Main Entry: | cheerfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, light-heartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, optimism, solace |
Antonyms: |
cheerlessness, gloom, sadness |
| Main Entry: | positive thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive attitude |
Synonyms: |
Pollyannaism, bright outlook, bullishness, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, great expectations, hopefulness, optimism, rosy outlook, silver lining |
| Main Entry: | joyfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
| Main Entry: | sanguineness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimism |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguinity, sureness, trust |
| Main Entry: | sanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | optimism |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguineness, sureness, trust |
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
hopeful, light, Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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