Alegre in english
Cheerful
pronunciation: tʃɪrfəl part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: tʃɪrfəl part of speech: adjective
In gestures
alegrar = jazz up ; brighten up ; liven up ; gladden.
Example: After jazzing up her appearance with a new blonde hairdo, she turns up in his office and talks him into taking her out for a meal.Example: The flowers will really help brighten up the cemetery when they flower in spring.Example: Here are ten fun ways to liven up your average train journey.Example: It gladdened him that she was close, that she would not be easily lost, but the pain was not so easily dissuaded.more:
» alegrar la vida a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + life .
Example: This is a real controversial life story of a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.» alegrarle el día a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + day ; make + Posesivo + day .
Example: A mother's grin is valued more than Dad's with 8% of respondents saying she brightened up their day as opposed to 3% for Dad. Example: Sometimes you can make their day simply by engaging them in a genuine conversation about themselves.» alegrarse = feel + elated ; brighten ; come to + life ; feel + happy .
Example: Jeanne Leforte felt tired but elated when the session adjourned. Example: 'And of course,' said the director, brightening as his idea gave birth to another one in her mind, 'it will be interesting to know how efficient electronic systems are at catching thieves'. Example: Italy, on the other hand, came to life only in the last ten odd minutes of their game against Slovakia. Example: We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.» alegrarse de = be glad (to) ; rejoice in .
Example: And at worst, if the trip is a flop (it happens!), at least he is glad to get back to work. Example: I cannot tell you how happy we in the circulation department will all be to put an end once and for all to the smiling delinquent patron who rejoices in paying his fine because he is thereby 'supporting a worthy cause'.» alegrarse escuchar que = be glad to hear that .
Example: I am glad to hear you say, Commissioner, that agriculture is still of huge importance = Me alegra oírle decir, señor Comisario, que la agricultura sigue teniendo una enorme importancia .» alegrarse oír que = be glad to hear that .
Example: I am glad to hear you say, Commissioner, that agriculture is still of huge importance = Me alegra oírle decir, señor Comisario, que la agricultura sigue teniendo una enorme importancia .» alegrarse por = be glad to hear that .
Example: I am glad to hear you say, Commissioner, that agriculture is still of huge importance = Me alegra oírle decir, señor Comisario, que la agricultura sigue teniendo una enorme importancia .» no alegrar = bring no + joy ; take no + joy .
Example: As teachers, we have to shatter their naivete (because ultimately that is what education ought to be), but it brings no joy to do so. Example: Make no mistake, I take no joy in seeing peaceful protesters attacked.alegre = cheerful ; lively ; light hearted [light-hearted/lighhearted] ; jolly ; merry ; joyful ; blithe ; gleeful ; perky ; cheery ; breezy ; good-humoured ; festive ; jaunty ; joyous ; glad ; jovial ; rollicking ; chirpy .
Example: Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.Example: But in the country the processes of printing always provoke such lively curiosity that the customers preferred to go in by a glazed door set in the shop-front and giving onto the street.Example: Properly read, live literature -- even the quietest or most light-hearted -- may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.Example: 'Let folks alone and all will then be jolly'.Example: Maybe Juan and his merry companions would be happy to relegate us to the boiler room, or a janitor's closet!.Example: It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.Example: According to these librarians, prudent judgment and professional knowledge about the value of a title should never be replaced by a blithe trust in statistical data = According to these librarians, prudent judgment and professional knowledge about the value of a title should never be replaced by a blithe trust in statistical data.Example: However, there is a gleeful bad-taste energy throughout; the film's dumb good nature is infectious, though hardly commendable.Example: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.Example: The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses.Example: This knowing sequel to the breezy glamor of 'Ocean's Eleven' provides more thieves, more heists, more twists, more locations, and more playfulness than the original.Example: The second thing is being good-humoured, not to get angry or pontificate or be dogmatic.Example: Christmas was especially festive with granma and granpa here to share it.Example: A wool beret, worn at just such a jaunty angle says 'I'm confident' in a most nonchalant way.Example: Also she possessed a pair of wonderful blue eyes that danced and scintillated with joyous good humour.Example: Her friends had perceived with regret that her buoyant spirits were giving place to unusual depression and that a languor was creeping over her glad eyes.Example: Uncle Tony was always jovial and cracking jokes with his hearty laugh.Example: In this rollicking, inspirational tale, a kid has his fill of back-breaking work in the steel mill, thumbs his nose at college and sets off to seek his fortune.Example: He was chirpy and on the mend yesterday after a fall at home left him concussed.more:
» ánimo alegre = buoyant spirit .
Example: Her friends had perceived with regret that her buoyant spirits were giving place to unusual depression and that a languor was creeping over her glad eyes.» carácter alegre y optimista = sunny disposition ; sunny temperament .
Example: It's amazing what a sunny disposition can do for your mood, and for your outlook on problems, no matter how big or small. Example: But the sunny temperament and zest for life, which he owed to the kindly circumstances of his youth, would last him almost to the end.» espíritu alegre = buoyant spirit .
Example: Her friends had perceived with regret that her buoyant spirits were giving place to unusual depression and that a languor was creeping over her glad eyes.» más alegre que unas castañuelas = as happy as Larry ; as happy as a lark ; as merry as a lark ; as merry as a cricket .
Example: Recent research into the reaction of key executives to the integration and expansion of global capital markets suggests that many of them are almost 'as happy as Larry'. Example: I thought I'd be happy as a lark when I finally got thin, but believe me I'm not. Example: He was soon at the door in his van, as merry as a lark, when I mounted and we started off at a full gallop. Example: I console myself with the thought that this time next week it'll all be over and I'll once again be merry as a cricket.» muy alegre = in a festive mood .
Example: The play begins in the streets of Rome in a festive mood as the citizens celebrate the return of Julius Caesar from his military campaign.» sentirse alegre = feel + happy .
Example: We even react as though it were all happening to us by feeling sad or happy, frightened or angry, amused or scandalized, and so on.» temperamento alegre y optimista = sunny disposition ; sunny temperament .
Example: It's amazing what a sunny disposition can do for your mood, and for your outlook on problems, no matter how big or small. Example: But the sunny temperament and zest for life, which he owed to the kindly circumstances of his youth, would last him almost to the end.