cheerful
adjective
full of cheer; in good spirits.
uncheerful
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a word derived from
cheerful.
Example Sentences
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He looked in upon a bare but not uncheerful room, where a clean wood fire blazed on an open hearth and over the fire a kettle sang cosily.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Alone in his uncheerful hotel bedchamber, his chair tilted back against the wall, he sat smoking and thinking, reviewing again and again every consideration growing out of his matrimonial entanglement.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
There were commonly no towns near the stations, which were not always uncheerful; sometimes there were flower-beds, unless my memory deceives me.
From Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells
But in Winter he was gloomy, Dark, and dismal, and uncheerful, And sat brooding as in anger, Robed in garments dull and heavy; All gay vesture now forsaken, And all music now forbidden.
From A Leaf from the Old Forest by John D. Cossar
Mrs. Noakes admitted with the grudgingness of a person of uncheerful temperament, that looks like that always would make talk.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
