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Antonyms for cheer
tʃɪərcheer

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English Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cheernoun

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

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

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Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. cheerverb

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

How to use cheer in a sentence?

  1. Lexi Brumback:

    I was saved by cheer.

  2. Fatih Birol:

    Given the number of deaths and the economic trauma around the world. This historic decline in global emissions is absolutely nothing to cheer.

  3. 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.

  4. Walter Scott:

    Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.

  5. Christina Rossetti:

    For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

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