Synonyms for cheer
tʃɪərcheer

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1. cheer

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, treasure, value

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1. cheernoun

   Synonyms:
   hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality

   Antonyms:
   dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociableness

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1. cheernoun

   a cry or shout of approval

   Synonyms:
   sunniness, sunshine, cheerfulness

   Antonyms:
   quetch, plain, kick, kvetch, complain, sound off

2. cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshineverb

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

   "flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room"

   Synonyms:
   sun, sunshine, blitheness, sunniness, fair weather, cheerfulness, sunlight, temperateness

   Antonyms:
   complain, plain, quetch, kvetch, kick, sound off

3. cheer, hearten, recreate, emboldenverb

   give encouragement to

   Synonyms:
   recreate, vivify, jolly up, play, root on, reanimate, hearten, urge, renovate, cheer up, exhort, barrack, embolden, urge on, revivify, pep up, chirk up, animate, repair, revive, inspire, jolly along, quicken

   Antonyms:
   plain, complain, sound off, kvetch, kick, quetch

4. cheerverb

   show approval or good wishes by shouting

   "everybody cheered the birthday boy"

   Synonyms:
   inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer up

   Antonyms:
   quetch, kvetch, complain, plain, sound off, kick

5. cheer, cheer up, jolly along, jolly upverb

   cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful

   "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"

   Synonyms:
   inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer up

   Antonyms:
   complain, plain, sound off, kick, kvetch, quetch

6. cheer, cheer up, chirk upverb

   become cheerful

   Synonyms:
   inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer up

   Antonyms:
   quetch, sound off, kick, plain, complain, kvetch

7. cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep upverb

   spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

   "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"

   Synonyms:
   jeer, juice up, animate, pep up, press, scoff, root on, enliven, urge on, instigate, flout, advocate, invigorate, urge, inspire, exalt, ginger up, exhort, hearten, jolly along, prompt, revolutionize, jazz up, recreate, cheer up, barrack, recommend, inhale, chirk up, embolden, breathe in, revolutionise, jolly up, gibe

   Antonyms:
   complain, sound off, quetch, kick, kvetch, plain

Matched Categories

1. • Applaud
   • Approval

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1. cheernoun

   Synonyms:
   mirth, gayety, joy, gladness, CHEERFULNESS

2. cheernoun

   Synonyms:
   entertainment, provisions, food, repast, viands, victuals

3. cheernoun

   Synonyms:
   acclamation, shout of applause

4. cheerverb

   Synonyms:
   gladden, exhilarate, inspirit, enliven, animate, incite, encourage

5. cheerverb

   Synonyms:
   comfort, console, solace, make cheerful

6. cheerverb

   Synonyms:
   applaud, clap, salute with cheers

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1. cheerverb

   Synonyms:
   inspirit, elate, exhilarate, encourage, console, revive, gladden, applaud

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1. List of paraphrases for "cheer":

   cheerfulness, joy, cheerleader, hooray, dance, rallying

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1. List of known nicknames for "Cheer":

   Alec Cheer

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1. Bubba Watson:

   You hear a lot of 'Go Dawgs!' You hear a lot of barking, when you get to see that many people from a school, it is like a fraternity. You can root for those people. Obviously, I want to beat them all, but you root for them and cheer them on.

2. Ayelet Fishbach:

   We celebrate graduations at work and cheer when we finish big projects. But there is no celebration for middles. That's when we both cut corners and we lose our motivation, we will still slack in that middle, and having long projects invites a long middle.

3. Thomas Paine:

   From the east to the west blow the trumpet to arms! Through the land let the sound of it flee; Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, In defense of our Liberty Tree

4. Robert Karalis:

   We started the island race trend and we're proud of the growth. We have the synergy between the public and private sector and locals to make the Spetses event bigger and better each year. numbers will come. We think success comes from putting it together. In the end, we connect the small island communities to a new concept of tourism in Greece. They love to participate, volunteer and cheer on the runners. It's a very local experience and a different feeling from the city races.

5. Gyorgy Lendvai:

   The situation is not as bad (as after World War Two) but people are in lockdown and we don't know for how long ... so we need to cheer them up, this is great, we love it ... the music is excellent.