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Spell Bee Word: Cheerful


What does cheerful mean?

Word: Cheerful

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Cheerful means happy and bright; in a good mood.

Synonyms: happy, jolly

Antonyms: sad

How do you spell cheerful?

Syllables: cheer - ful

Tricky part: The ending ful has only one l, even though the word full has two.

Watch out for: cheerfull, cheerfal

Memory tip: When full joins the end of a word, it drops one l, as in helpful and careful.

Cheerful in a sentence

Example 1: Our class teacher is always cheerful.

Example 2: The yellow walls make the room look cheerful.

Example 3: Mohan woke up cheerful on his birthday.

Fun Fact

Cheerful was first used about 600 years ago. It meant full of cheer, and cheer then meant a person's mood or the look on their face.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

cheerful

a) noisy
b) smiling
c) gloomy
d) sleepy

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c) gloomy. A cheerful person feels happy; a gloomy person feels sad.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) cheerful
b) chierful
c) chearful
d) cherful

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a) cheerful. The long e sound in cheerful is spelt ee.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

fucleher

a) cheerful
b) cheerflu
c) chereful
d) cheeflur

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a) cheerful. The three letters f, u and l finish the word.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

c_eerful

a) s
b) l
c) r
d) h

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d) h. Cheerful starts with the same ch as chair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can you tell that someone is cheerful?

a) they have tears on their cheeks
b) they have a deep frown
c) they give a sleepy yawn
d) they have a big bright smile

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d) they have a big bright smile

2. What would make most children feel cheerful?

a) a rained-off match
b) a birthday party
c) a missed school bus
d) a broken toy

Show answer

b) a birthday party

Associated Words

Words that end in -ful: beautiful, joyful, helpful, awful, playful, thankful

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: jolly

More words from this list

doubt, gallery, knee, panther, salad, summer, wolf, bear

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