cheer up

1. 1.

   cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful

   “She tried to cheer up the disappointed child when he failed to win the spelling bee”

   Synonymscheerjolly alongjolly up

   Narroweramuse
2. 2.

   become cheerful

   Synonymscheerchirk up

   Broaderrejoice

   Narrowerexuberatelighten

Questions about cheer up

What does cheer up mean?

cheer up means "cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cheer up?

Close synonyms include cheer, jolly along, jolly up, cheer, chirk up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheer up a common word?

cheer up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.