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cheer up

cheer up verb: to become happier or less downcast.

Verb

cheer up (third-person singular simple present cheers up, present participle cheering up, simple past and past participle cheered up)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become happier or less downcast.
    • I cheered up after seeing the results.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To make someone happier or less downcast.
    • The arrival of the unexpected letter cheered him up almost immediately.
    • Therefore cheere vp your mindes, prepare to fight,
      He that can take or ſlaughter Tamburlaine,
      Shall rule the Prouince of Albania.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    Antonyms:
    depress

Interjection

  1. An encouragement to somebody who seems unhappy.
    • Cheer up! Things could be worse.

cheer up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Tagalog

cheer up in Tamil

to cheer up, take courage
தேறு tēṟu

cheer up in Malayalam

brighten (up), perk up, become more cheerful
ഉന്മേഷിപ്പിക്കുക, പ്രോത്സാഹിപ്പിക്കുക, ആഹ്ലാദിപ്പിക്കുക, ഉന്മേഷം നല്കുക, ഉത്സാഹമുണ്ടാക്കുക, ധെെര്യം കൊടുക്കുക

cheer up in Tagalog

to become happy
magsaya, sumaya
to make someone happy
magpasaya

Synonyms of cheer up

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Antonyms

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Forms of cheer up

third-person singular presentcheers up
present participlecheering up
past participlecheered up
pastcheered up

Words formed from cheer up

Questions about cheer up

What does cheer up mean?
Cheer up means to become happier or less downcast.
What is cheer up in Tamil?
Cheer up in Tamil is தேறு (tēṟu). See Cheer up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cheer up?
Cheer up can be a verb or an interjection.
What is the past tense of cheer up?
The past tense of cheer up is cheered up.

Words near cheer up in the dictionary

  1. cheer pheasants
  2. cheer ship
  3. cheer squad
  4. cheer squads
  5. cheer to the echo
  6. cheer up
  7. cheer'd
  8. cheer-off
  9. cheer-offs
  10. cheerable
  11. cheere

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cheer up (page history and authors); தேறு (Tamil) (page history and authors); cheer up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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