Antonyms for Cheerfulnesscheer·ful·ness

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1. • Happiness

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1. cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshinenoun

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

   "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

   Antonyms:
   cheerlessness, uncheerfulness

   Synonyms:
   sun, sunshine, blitheness, sunniness, cheer, fair weather, cheerfulness, sunlight, temperateness

2. cheerfulness, blithenessnoun

   a feeling of spontaneous good spirits

   "his cheerfulness made everyone feel better"

   Antonyms:
   cheerlessness, uncheerfulness

   Synonyms:
   sunniness, blitheness, sunshine, cheer, cheerfulness

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1. cheerfulnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   cheeriness, buoyancy, elation, exhilaration, alacrity, jocundity, light-heartedness, optimism

How to use Cheerfulness in a sentence?

1. Mary Wortley Montagu:

   There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

2. Richter:

   There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

3. Thomas Hood (1799-1845), in the poem called No!:

   No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon - No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member - No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

4. Charles Dickens:

   I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

5. Joseph Addison:

   Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

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