chirpy

/'tʃə:pi/

Thân thiện

The little girl has a chirpy smile as she skips through the park.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness; cheerful and energetic: Describes a person, mood, or behavior that is noticeably happy, bright, and full of energy.
   • (Of birds or insects) Making or tending to make short, high-pitched sounds: Describes the characteristic sound or the act of producing such sounds.

Examples

• Adjective (Liveliness):
• Adjective (Sound):

Advanced Usage

• "to be in a chirpy mood": to be feeling particularly cheerful and lively.
• Used informally, sometimes to describe a cheerfulness that is perceived as excessive or relentless.

Variants and Related Words

• Chirp (verb/noun): To make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound, or the sound itself.
• Chirpily (adverb): In a cheerful and lively manner.
• Chirpiness (noun): The quality of being chirpy.

Synonyms

• Cheerful: Noticeably happy and optimistic.
• Perky: Lively and cheerful; jaunty.
• Bubbly: Full of cheerful high spirits.
• Bright: (Of a person) intelligent and quick-witted; also used for a cheerful demeanor.
• Buoyant: Cheerful and optimistic.

Antonyms

• Glum: Looking or feeling dejected; morose.
• Morose: Sullen and ill-tempered.
• Lethargic: Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic.
• Downcast: (Of a person's eyes) looking downward; (of a person) feeling sad or discouraged.

Related Phrases

• "Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed": Alert, lively, and eager. (This idiom shares the energetic, cheerful connotations of "chirpy").

Học thuật

Adjective

1. 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
2. (birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp

Từ đồng nghĩa

• buoyant
• perky