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jauntiness [jawn-tee, jahn-]
Main Entry:
cheer [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: lightheartedness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: high spirits
Synonyms: blitheness, buoyancy, ebullience, euphoria, jauntiness, jeu d'esprit, nonchalance, sprightliness
Antonyms: gloom, heavyheartedness
Main Entry: sportiveness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: playfulness
Synonyms: antics, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, impishness, jauntiness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, spiritedness, vivacity, waggishness
Main Entry: waggishness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: playfulness
Synonyms: antics, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, impishness, jauntiness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, spiritedness, sportiveness, vivacity
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Cheerfulness.
Category: 1. Passive Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
cheerfulness; geniality, gayety, l'allegro, cheer, good humor, spirits; high spirits, animal spirits, flow of spirits; glee, high glee, light heart; sunshine of the mind, sunshine of the breast; gaiete de coeur, bon naturel., liveliness; life, alacrity, vivacity, animation, allegresse; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity (wit)., mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration; laughter; merrymaking (amusement); heyday, rejoicing; marriage bell., nepenthe, Euphrosyne., optimism (hopefulness); self complacency; hedonics, hedonism.
-verbs
be cheerful; have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up., keep a stiff upper lip., rejoice; carol, chirrup, lilt; frisk, rollick, give a loose to mirth., cheer, enliven, elate, exhilarate, gladden, inspirit, animate, raise the spirits, inspire; perk up; put in good humor; cheer the heart, rejoice the heart; delight (give pleasure).
-adjectives
cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper [U.S.]; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, lighthearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive., sunny, palmy; hopeful., merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage bell; joyful, joyous, jocund, jovial; jolly as a thrush, jolly as a sandboy; blithesome; gleeful, gleesome; hilarious, rattling., winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom.
-adverbs
cheerfully
-phrases
"a merry heart goes all the day" [A winter's Tale]; "as merry as the day is long" [Much Ado]; ride si sapis [Martial].
Antonyms: dejection
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