l'allegro [Fr.], 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 [Fr.], bon naturel [Fr.].
liveliness &c adj.; life, alacrity, vivacity, animation,
allegresse†; jocundity, joviality, jollity; levity; jocularity &c (wit)
842.
mirth, merriment, hilarity, exhilaration; laughter &c 838;
merrymaking &c (amusement) 840; heyday, rejoicing &c 838; marriage
bell.
nepenthe, Euphrosyne†, sweet forgetfulness.
optimism &c (hopefulness) 858; self complacency; hedonics†,
hedonism.
V. be cheerful &c adj.; 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 [Fr.]; ridentem dicere virum [Lat.], 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 &c 838; 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 &c (give pleasure) 829.
Adj. cheerful; happy &c 827; 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, light
hearted; 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 &c 858.
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.
playful, playsome†; folatre [Fr.], playful as a kitten, tricksy†,
frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving,
laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.
elate, elated; exulting, jubilant, flushed; rejoicing &c 838;
cock-a-hoop.
cheering, inspiriting, exhilarating; cardiac, cardiacal†; pleasing
&c 829; palmy.
Adv. cheerfully &c adj..
Int. never say die!, come!, cheer up!, hurrah!, &c 838; hence loathed
melancholy!, begone dull care!, away with melancholy!,
Phr. a merry heart goes all the day [A winter's Tale]; as merry as the
day is long [Much Ado]; ride si sapis [Lat.] [Martial].