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Antonyms for cheer
tʃɪərcheer
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term cheer.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 Antonyms
cheernoun
Antonyms:
dejection, sullenness, gloom, starvation, niggardliness, dearth, inhospitableness, churlishness, unsociablenessSynonyms:
hope, happiness, comfort, hospitality, plenty, conviviality
Princeton's WordNet
cheernoun
a cry or shout of approval
Antonyms:
quetch, plain, kick, kvetch, complain, sound offSynonyms:
sunniness, sunshine, cheerfulnesscheerfulness, 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 offSynonyms:
sun, sunshine, blitheness, sunniness, fair weather, cheerfulness, sunlight, temperatenesscheer, hearten, recreate, emboldenverb
give encouragement to
Antonyms:
plain, complain, sound off, kvetch, kick, quetchSynonyms:
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, quickencheerverb
show approval or good wishes by shouting
"everybody cheered the birthday boy"
Antonyms:
quetch, kvetch, complain, plain, sound off, kickSynonyms:
inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer upcheer, 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, quetchSynonyms:
inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer upcheer, cheer up, chirk upverb
become cheerful
Antonyms:
quetch, sound off, kick, plain, complain, kvetchSynonyms:
inspire, exhort, root on, hearten, urge on, recreate, urge, jolly up, chirk up, embolden, barrack, pep up, jolly along, cheer upcheer, 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, plainSynonyms:
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 Words
How to use cheer in a sentence?
I was saved by cheer.
Given the number of deaths and the economic trauma around the world. This historic decline in global emissions is absolutely nothing to cheer.
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.
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.
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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