cheer

n

1. shout, yell, hurrah, hurray, huz-zah, rah.

2. encouragement, comfort, solace, consolation, relief; hopefulness, hope, faith, confidence, reassurance; inspiration, inspiritment, heartening, enheartenment, emboldening.

3. cheerfulness, gladness, gaiety, gayness; good or high spirits, blitheness, blithesomeness, light-heartedness, buoyancy, optimism, good nature; joy, sunshine, delight, pleasure, happiness, felicity, bliss; joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, exhilaration, exultation, glee, elation; joviality, merriment, jollity, mirth, mirthfulness, hilarity; jubilance, jubilancy, rejoicing, jubilee, frolic, fun, enjoyment; revelry, revel, conviviality, festivity.

4. animation, liveliness, vivacity, vivaciousness, sprightliness; spirit, enthusiasm, exuberance, animal spirits; energy, life, vitality, vigor, vim, Inf. pep; ebullience, sparkle, effervescence, shine, glow.

v

5. applaud, clap, salute; shout, yell, cry aloud, Inf. holler, root for; hurrah, hurray, huzzah.

6. cheer up

be of good cheer, take heart, Inf. buck up, U.S. Inf. chirk; comfort, solace, make [s.o.] feel better, console, reassure; encourage, inspire, inspirit, Inf. pep up, buoy up, raise [s.o.'s] spirits, give [s.o.] a lift; gladden, hearten, enhearten, embolden; animate, vivify, quicken, vitalize, energize, enliven, brighten, invigorate, give new life to; fortify, strengthen, restore, revitalize, revivify, revive.

7. incite, stimulate, arouse, rouse up, awaken; fire, kindle, enkindle, stir, goad, spur on, prod, prick; push, egg on, urge, impel, exhort; boost, promote, prompt, Inf. spark, Inf. sparkplug, instigate, foment, provoke; excite, work up.