Cheer Up

Definition: Cheer Up

Cheer Up

Verb

1. Make cheerful.

2. Become cheerful.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cheer Up

Cheerfulness

Verb: be cheerful; Adjective: have the mind at ease, smile, put a good face upon, keep up one's spirits; view the bright side of the picture, view things en couleur de rose; ridentem dicere virum, cheer up, brighten up, light up, bear up; chirp, take heart, cast away care, drive dull care away, perk up.

Interjection: never say die! come! cheer up! hurrah!; "hence loathed melancholy!" begone dull care! away with melancholy!

Crosswords: Cheer Up

Well, cheer up, Mary; living alone has its compensations. (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos)

Cheer up, Dad. Did you know the Chinese use the same word for 'crisis' as they do for 'opportunity'? (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Hey, cheer up! A hickey from Kenickie is like a Hallmark card. (Grease; writing credit: Bronte Woodard.)

Cheer up, Sleepy Jean. (Daydream Believer; performing artist: The Monkees)

Cheer Up (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cheer Up Little Noddy (reference)

• Cheer Up, Chicken! (reference)

• Cheer Up, Sad Cat! (reference)

• Cheer up, Sebastian (reference)

• Cheer Up...You're Only Half Dead: Reflections at Mid-Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Cheer Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Cheer up! cried Spring, I bring for you the spell of youth: gold- silver- blue. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheer up Mr. President--it is not Congress which shows lack of confidence. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheer up, my boy, we're going to let you have copper pennies again. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheer up! he's gotta tell you something within six weeks!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles, taking his aunt for a sail: Cheer up Aunty, we'll soon be aboard and then you'll think you're ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheer up -- it still looks good to me!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cheer up! Maybe next Christmas. Credit: Library of Congress.

The wick fancy hat bands. Cheer up - show your colors. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Cheer up, old top; you've got nothing to worry about!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

mbush me gëzim (cheer), inkurajoj (encourage, hearten). (various references)

Bulgarian 

утешавам (becalm, comfort, console, solace, soothe, visit), кураж (courage, fortitude, mettle, pecker, resolve, spunk), горе главата, ободрявам (animate, brighten, bring round, buck up, comfort, elevate, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, invigorate, key up, lighten, liven up, nerve, pull round, reanimate, refresh, set up, spirit, stir up trouble, uplift), поразвеселявам. (various references)

Czech

vzpružit se, vzchopit se (buck up), rozveselit se (brighten up), povzbudit (buck up, embolden, encourage, hearten, sharpen, spirit, stimulate, stir, whet), hlavu vzhùru. (various references)

Finnish

reipastuttaa (invigorate, refresh), piristyä (brighten up). (various references)

French

se dérider, s'égayer. (various references)

German

aufheitern (brighten, brighten up, cheer, clear, clear up, lighten). (various references)

Greek 

κουράγιο (comfort, guts, mettle, mettled, nerve, stick to it), χαρήτε. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעו�"�" (cheer, embolden, encourage, hearten, invigorate, keep in countenance, man, nerve, spirit, strengthen), לחזק י�"י, לחזק רוחו, ל�"תעו�"�" (take heart). (various references)

Hungarian

felvidul (cheer, to brighten, to buck up, to cheer up, to chirp up, to wax merry), felvidít (delight, exhilarate, freshen up, gladden, jollify, joy, rejoice, to brighten, to buck sy up, to cheer, to cheer up, to comfort, to elevate, to enlighten, to enliven, to exhilarate, to freshen, to gladden, to jolly, to set up). (various references)

Indonesian

menggembirakan (enliven, gladden, make happy). (various references)

Italian

consolare (comfort, console, consular, solace, soothe, take comfort), rianimare (enliven, quicken, rally, reanimate, recover oneself, refresh, resuscitate, revive, take heart again, wake), rasserenare, rallegrare (brighten, cheer, congratulate, delight, make glad, rejoice), incoraggiarsi. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

病人�'励ます (to cheer up an invalid), 気分が弾む (to cheer up), 元気付ける (to cheer up, to pep up), 奮い立つ　 (to cheer up), 奮い立つ (to cheer up), 友�"�'励ます (to cheer up one's friend), 勇む (to be encouraged, to be in high spirits, to be lively, to cheer up), 勇み立つ (to be encouraged, to be in high spirits, to cheer up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きぶ�"がはずむ (to cheer up), びょうに�"�'は�'ます (to cheer up an invalid), ふるいたつ (to cheer up), いさむ (to be encouraged, to be in high spirits, to be lively, to cheer up), いさみたつ (to be encouraged, to be in high spirits, to cheer up), �'�"きづける (to cheer up, to pep up). (various references)

Manx

gerjaghey (cheering, comfort, console, consoling, solace), cur cree ayn (fortify). (various references)

Pig Latin

eerchay upay

Portuguese

animar-se (buck up, liven up, perk up), alentar-se. (various references)

Romanian

prinde curaj (pluck up courage, take courage). (various references)

Russian 

повеселеть, подбадривать (bear up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razveseliti (exhilarate, gladden, humor, humour, jollify, jolly), oraspoložiti, odobrovoljiti. (various references)

Spanish

refocilar (amuse), alegrar (delighted, enliven, gladden, lighten, liven, liven up, rejoice, warm). (various references)

Swedish

muntra upp (brighten, exhilarate). (various references)

Turkish

teselli etmek (cheer, comfort, console, solace), neşelenmek (be happy, bear up, brighten up, buck up, kick up one's heels, liven, liven up, perk, perk up, quicken, rejoice), neşelendirmek (amuse, animate, brace, brace up, brighten, buck up, cheer, elate, enliven, exhilarate, hearten, inspirit, light, light up, liven, liven up, quicken, revive, spirit, spirit up, vivify), neşelen (bear up), morali düzelmek, moral vermek (edify, hearten, relieve one's mind), keyiflenmek (rejoice), keyfine bak (buck up, enjoy it, please yourself), avutmak (cheer, comfort, console, delude, distract, relieve, solace). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцwnьne gotermek. (various references)

Ukrainian

не журися!. (various references)

diffundentur, diffusa, diffusi, diffusus, exorta, exortae, exorti, exortum, exortus. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: euchre.

-2 letters: cheep, cheer, creep, crepe, perch, puree, ruche, rupee.

-3 letters: cepe, cere, cure, eche, ecru, here, pech, peer, pree, puce, pure.

-4 letters: cee, cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ere, hep, her, hue, hup, pec, pee, peh, per, pur, rec, ree, rep, rue.

-5 letters: eh, er, he, pe, re, uh, up.

+2 letters: hypercube, sepulcher, sepulchre, upreached, upreaches.

+3 letters: hyperacute, hypercubes, keypuncher, leprechaun, prepunched, prepunches, repurchase, sepulchers, sepulchred, sepulchres.

+4 letters: keypunchers, lectureship, leprechauns, outpreached, outpreaches, perithecium, photoreduce, preluncheon, prepurchase, preschedule, repurchased, repurchases, sepulchered, supercharge, surfperches, therapeutic.

+5 letters: executorship, hypersurface, lectureships, photoreduced, photoreduces, picturephone, prepurchased, prepurchases, prescheduled, preschedules, sepulchering, superbitches, supercharged, supercharger, supercharges, superhelical, superhelices, therapeutics, thermocouple, unchaperoned, undeciphered, urethroscope.