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cheer
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheer
- a birthday celebration filled with affection and cheer
cheerfulness, cheeriness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, hilarity, jocundity, joviality, merriment, merriness, mirth, mirthfulness
jollification, jollity, reveling (or revelling), revelry
brightness, buoyancy, good-humoredness, good-naturedness, humor, sunniness
gamesomeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, playfulness, sportiveness
buffoonery, clownishness, flippancy, funning, jest, jesting, jocoseness, jocosity, jocularity, joking, joshing
animation, giddiness, jauntiness, liveliness, perkiness, vivacity
joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, rejoicing
frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), rollicking, romping
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, forlornness, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness
bile, gloom, melancholy, sourness, spleen
earnestness, graveness, gravity, grimness, seriousness, soberness, sobersidedness, solemnity, solemnness
discontent, disgruntlement, moodiness
dolefulness, dolorousness, joylessness, mournfulness, plaintiveness, woe, woefulness
- the visiting general had some words of cheer for each of the hospital's recuperating soldiers
- be of good cheer in this Christmas season
angle, attitude, mind-set, outlook, perspective, slant, standpoint, viewpoint
emotion, feeling, heart, passion, sentiment
belief, conviction, judgment (or judgement), mind, opinion
character, disposition, identity, individuality, makeup, mettle, personality, selfhood, self-identity, temper, temperament
- all three movies in the series received cheers from fans of the novels
cheer
Synonyms and Antonyms of cheer
- critics and fans alike have cheered the latest addition to the author's series of fantasy novels
- let's hope that these flowers will cheer my ailing aunt at least a little
commiserate, condole, empathize, sympathize
boost, buoy (up), elevate, lift, uplift
allay, alleviate, assuage, relieve
calm, quiet, relax, tranquilize (also tranquillize)
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