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  • adjective comparative form of cheerful: more cheerful

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Examples

  • His complexion looked healthier, his expression cheerfuller, his eyes brighter than they had ever been of late years.

    After Dark Wilkie Collins 1856

  • But in general she's getting better and cheerfuller and fatter and fabulous.

    Spring! ailbhe 2007

  • Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views!

    Emma 2004

  • Oh! the pains I have been at to dispel those gloomy ideas and give him cheerfuller views!

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

  • I've set an 'took my tea on my knee on the step there many a time, because it seemed cheerfuller than in my own little place at the back.

    Smethurstses 1995

  • Princeton students are cheerfuller than Oxford students.

    Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America 1995

  • It was a dark and gloomy forest, but the spell of its sombre depths drew our eyes quite as often as the cheerfuller charm of the woodland on the other side; and so was equally responsible for the zigzag course that Gadabout was taking.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • "The little boy from the Home, Mrs. Truedale," she replied, "and already the house is cheerfuller."

    The Man Thou Gavest

  • I could almost wish that we had kept her always in that pretty green valley where we first saw her; but I suppose in every life there come times when cabbages, or things of no cheerfuller aspect than cabbages, are the only prospect, and this was one of her times.

    My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

  • I dare say I shall find you the better and the honester man for it many years hence; very probably the healthfuller, and the cheerfuller into the bargain.

    Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732) Melville, Lewis 1921

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