Cheerful in Malayalam
Cheerful in the everyday sense is സന്തോഷമുള്ള (santhoshamulla), built from the common noun for happiness plus an ending meaning having. Say san-tho-sha-mul-la. It describes a cheerful mood, a cheerful face or a cheerful person without sounding formal.
Glad; happy, pleased, cheerful about something.
അവൻ എപ്പോഴും സന്തോഷമുള്ള ഒരു കുട്ടിയാണ്.
avan eppozhum santhoshamulla oru kuttiyaanu.
He is always a glad child.
All Malayalam words for “cheerful”
- സന്തോഷമുള്ള (santhoshamulla) — Glad; happy, pleased, cheerful about something.
- അപ്രസന്നം (aprasannam) — That which is not pleasant or cheerful.
- അഹൃദ്യ (ahrudya) — Not hearty or cheerful.
സന്തോഷമുള്ള (santhoshamulla) is the positive, ordinary word; the other two listed options are negatives, with അപ്രസന്നം (aprasannam) meaning that which is not pleasant or cheerful and അഹൃദ്യ (ahrudya) meaning not hearty or cheerful.
Common questions
How do you say cheerful in Malayalam?
Use സന്തോഷമുള്ള (santhoshamulla), meaning glad, happy or cheerful.
How do I say the opposite, that someone is not cheerful?
Rather than hunting for a separate adjective, the listed negatives അപ്രസന്നം (aprasannam) and അഹൃദ്യ (ahrudya) carry that meaning, both in a formal register.