Word Meanings - UNSADDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To relieve from sadness; to cheer. Whitlock.

Related words: (words related to UNSADDEN)

• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• CHEERLESS
  Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
• CHEER
  chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled
• SADNESS
  1. Heaviness; firmness. 2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer. 3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Syn.
• CHEERRY
  Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.
• CHEERFUL
  Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the
• CHEERFULLY
  In a cheerful manner, gladly.
• CHEERILY
  In a cheery manner.
• RELIEVE
  discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;
• CHEERLY
  Gay; cheerful. Shak.
• RELIEVER
  One who, or that which, relieves.
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
• UNSADNESS
  Infirmity; weakness. Wyclif.