alegre

Alegre is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo. Its population was 32,523 (2005) and its area is 773 km².
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adj. happy, glad, pleased; merry, joyful, festive

v. gladden, cheer; liven, enliven

adj. cheerful, cheery; convivial; jocund, glad; gleeful, lively

v. cheer, gladden; rejoice, delight; enliven

= cheerful, lively [livelier -comp., liveliest -sup.], light hearted [light-hearted/lighhearted], jolly [jollier -comp., jolliest -sup.], merry [merrier -comp., merriest -sup.], joyful, blithe, gleeful, perky [perkier -comp., perkiest -sup.], cheery [cheerier -comp., cheeriest -sup.], breezy [breezier -comp., breeziest -sup.], good-humoured.
Ex: 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.
Ex: 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.
Ex: Properly read, live literature -- even the quietest or most light-hearted -- may be disturbing, may subvert our view of life.
Ex: 'Let folks alone and all will then be jolly'.
Ex: Maybe Juan and his merry companions would be happy to relegate us to the boiler room, or a janitor's closet!.
Ex: It's that joyful leap from one place to another that symbolises the freedom to explore on the web.
Ex: 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.
Ex: However, there is a gleeful bad-taste energy throughout; the film's dumb good nature is infectious, though hardly commendable.
Ex: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.
Ex: The novel is a cheery social satire about geeky middle-aged men and their freakishly attractive, younger spouses.
Ex: 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.
Ex: The second thing is being good-humoured, not to get angry or pontificate or be dogmatic.
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* más alegre que unas castañuelas = as happy as Larry.

= jazz up.
Ex: 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.
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* alegrarse = feel + elated, brighten.
* alegrarse de = be glad (to), rejoice in.