Antonyms 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

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Applaud
   • Approval

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. cheernoun

   a cry or shout of approval

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

   Synonyms:
   sunniness, sunshine, cheerfulness

2. cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshineverb

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

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

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

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

3. cheer, hearten, recreate, emboldenverb

   give encouragement to

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

   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

4. cheerverb

   show approval or good wishes by shouting

   "everybody cheered the birthday boy"

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

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

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"

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

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

6. cheer, cheer up, chirk upverb

   become cheerful

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

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

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"

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

   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

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1. cheerverb

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

How to use cheer in a sentence?

1. Victoria Azarenka:

   I hope to take a break and be able to come back, i'm sorry to the fans for what happened as you were great to cheer for me. It was the only reason I decided to step on the court.

2. Margaret Hilda Thatcher:

   I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

3. United States:

   My campaign has released aone-sentence press release calling Donald Trump a' jagoff,' which is Western Pennsylvania for jerk, populism has adark side and Donald Trump is mining that for all it’s worth by saying reprehensible things about Muslims, about immigrants, about you name it. If you get to live vicariously through that and cheer Donald Trump on, Ido n’t expect to get your vote, and frankly, Ido n’t wantit.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   she said i want you to meet him you'll like him really yeah i thought like car crash broken glass rusty razored underwear barbed wire cheer acid fear like walking down normandie naked nightly like tiger claws 'n earthquake falls i'll really relish meeting 'm.

5. Jim Fassel:

   ( Former Mayor Rudy) Giuliani's office asked me if I would come over and just walk around and shake the hands and tell them that we're supporting all these guys, i went over there three or four days afterward and it was unbelievable. You're standing there and this space is just wide open. I asked them,' What am I going to do ?' They said,' You can cheer them up. People recognize you, you can just support them.' So I did. And it did work. That's how I first got involved with some firemen. Even the ones from out-of-state, mainly some from California recognized me, and I stopped and talked to them. Those guys looked like they hadn't slept in days, they were dirty. I was just saying,' Thanks guys for what you're doing here.' You try to do a little something for them.

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