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Adjective cheering has 2 senses
- comforting, cheering, satisfying - providing freedom from worry
Antonym: unsatisfactory (indirect, via satisfactory)
- cheering - bringing cheer or gladness; "cheering news"
Antonyms: cheerless, uncheerful (indirect, via cheerful)
Noun cheering has 1 sense
- cheering, shouting - encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators; "it's all over but the shouting"
--1 is a kind of encouragement
Verb cheer has 5 senses
- cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden - give encouragement to
--1 is one way to encourage
Sample sentence:
The good news will cheer her
- cheer - show approval or good wishes by shouting; "everybody cheered the birthday boy"
--2 is one way to applaud
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- cheer, cheer up, jolly along, jolly up - cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful; "She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- cheer, cheer up, chirk up - become cheerful
--4 is one way to rejoice, joy
Antonyms: complain, kick, plain, sound off, quetch, kvetch
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- cheer, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up - urge on or encourage especially by shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
--5 is one way to encourage
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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