different between cheerful vs rejoiced

English

Alternative forms

• cheerfull (archaic)
• chearful (archaic or dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English chereful, cherful, equivalent to cheer +? -ful.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????f?l/, /?t????f?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????f?l/, /?t????f?l/
• Hyphenation: cheer?ful
• Rhymes: -??rf?l

Adjective

cheerful (comparative more cheerful, superlative most cheerful)

1. Noticeably happy and optimistic.

   Synonyms: bright, bubbly, cheerly, ebullient, happy, joyful, merry, optimistic, vivacious; see also Thesaurus:happy

   Antonyms: depressed, miserable, sad

2. Bright and pleasant.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d????st/
• Rhymes: -??st
• Hyphenation: re?joiced

Verb

rejoiced

1. simple past tense and past participle of rejoice

Adjective

rejoiced (comparative more rejoiced, superlative most rejoiced)

1. (now rare) Joyful, delighted. [from 16th c.]
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 201:

     Laura was rejoiced at the favourable alteration in her mother […] .