| cheerful | | |
| adj. | 1. cheerful | being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits.; "her cheerful nature"; "a cheerful greeting"; "a cheerful room"; "as cheerful as anyone confined to a hospital bed could be" |
| ~ beaming, glad | cheerful and bright.; "a beaming smile"; "a glad May morning" |
| ~ beamish, smiling, twinkly | smiling with happiness or optimism.; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus" |
| ~ blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, blithe, lightsome | carefree and happy and lighthearted.; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart" |
| ~ perky, buoyant, chirpy | characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness.; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s" |
| ~ cheery, gay, sunny | bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer.; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" |
| ~ chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty | having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air.; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" |
| ~ happy | enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure.; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage" |
| ~ glad | showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy.; "glad you are here"; "glad that they succeeded"; "gave a glad shout"; "a glad smile"; "heard the glad news"; "a glad occasion" |
| adj. | 2. cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat | pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic. |
| ~ optimistic | expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds.; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view" |
| jubilant | | |
| adj. | 1. exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant | joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success.; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" |
| ~ elated | exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits.; "the elated winner"; "felt elated and excited" |
| adj. | 2. elated, gleeful, joyful, jubilant | full of high-spirited delight.; "a joyful heart" |
| ~ joyous | full of or characterized by joy.; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter" |
| maya | | |
| n. (person) | 1. maya, mayan | a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" |
| ~ federation of tribes, tribe | a federation (as of American Indians). |
| ~ american indian, indian, red indian | a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived. |
| ~ cakchiquel | a member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala. |
| ~ kekchi | a member of a Mayan people of north central Guatemala. |
| ~ mam | a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala. |
| ~ quiche | a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala. |
| ~ yucatec, yucateco | a member of the Mayan people of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. |
| n. (communication) | 2. maya, mayan, mayan language | a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya. |
| ~ american-indian language, amerind, amerindian language, american indian, indian | any of the languages spoken by Amerindians. |
| ~ kekchi | a Mayan language spoken by the Kekchi. |
| ~ mam | a Mayan language spoken by the Mam. |
| ~ yucatec, yucateco | a Mayan language spoken by the Yucatec. |
| ~ quiche | the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche. |
| ~ cakchiquel | the Mayan language spoken by the Cakchiquel. |
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