Comparative form of cheeful; more cheerful or more full of cheer than something else.
Cheeful + comparative suffix '-er'. Standard English comparative formation from the base adjective cheeful.
While 'more cheerful' is standard modern English, 'cheefuller' shows how English allows double comparatives—you'll find both forms in historical texts, though the '-more' version gradually won out.
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