| cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
| (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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| cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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| (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
| cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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| cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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| (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
| cheerily | (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: pleasantly, sunnily |
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| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
| cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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| cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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| (noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
| cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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| cheerlessly | (adverb) in an unhappy manner | - |
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| cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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| cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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| sheer | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down |
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| (adjective) not mixed with extraneous elements | Synonyms: plain, unmingled, unmixed |
| (adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, bold |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
| (adverb) completely | - |
| (adverb) straight up or down without a break | Synonyms: perpendicularly |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) cause to sheer | - |
| uncheerful | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, depressing |
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| uncheerfulness | (noun) not conducive to cheer or good spirits | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: cheerlessness |