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- critics and fans alike have cheered the latest addition to the author's series of fantasy novels
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- let's hope that these flowers will cheer my ailing aunt at least a little
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- calm,
- quiet,
- relax,
- tranquilize
- (also tranquillize)
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cheer
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of cheer (Entry 2 of 2)
- a birthday celebration filled with affection and cheer
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- cheerfulness,
- cheeriness,
- festivity,
- gaiety
- (also gayety),
- gayness,
- glee,
- gleefulness,
- hilarity,
- jocundity,
- joviality,
- merriment,
- merriness,
- mirth,
- mirthfulness
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- the visiting general had some words of cheer for each of the hospital's recuperating soldiers
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- be of good cheer in this Christmas season
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- all three movies in the series received cheers from fans of the novels
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“Cheer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheer. Accessed 28 May. 2022.
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