Definitions for cheery

cheery cheer·y

Spelling: [cheer-ee]
IPA: /ˈtʃɪər i/

Cheery is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in cheery (ceehry).

Definitions for cheery

adjective

  1. in good spirits; cheerful; happy.
  2. promoting cheer; enlivening.

Origin of cheery

First recorded in 1840-50; cheer + -y1

Examples for cheery

Tony Cornish had a cheery way with him which made other men talk.

More than anything else he is cheery—mordant and ironic at times, but undauntedly optimistic.

Close beside us the lights of the town gleamed yellow and cheery.

"Here's where we shine," broke in a cheery voice which was sweet to the ears, just then.

It would work, he said with cheery midwestern optimism, because “people are generally good.”

Her cheery partner was paddling his rosy brows with a fine handkerchief.

The cheery 69-year-old father of eight sits in the center with his wife and delicately brandishes a small, brown book.

And so Michaelis dreams of a world like a beautiful and cheery hospital.

The name “Meduza” might not sound so cheery, Timchenko admits.

Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.

Word Value for cheery
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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