upbeat

upbeat
Synonyms and related words:
Great Leap Forward, Leibnizian, advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, arsis, ascent, bar beat, beat, bettering, betterment, boost, bout, bright, buoyant, cheerful, chiliastic, circle, circuit, couleur de rose, course, cycle, diastole, downbeat, encouraging, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, favorable, fond, furtherance, headway, heartening, improvement, lift, light-hearted, melioration, mend, mending, millenarian, millennialistic, offbeat, optimistic, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pickup, positive, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, pulsation, pulse, recovery, restoration, revival, revolution, rise, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rotation, round, sanguine, series, spell, sunny, systole, thesis, throb, turn, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, utopian, wheel

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  • upbeat — UK US /ˈʌpˌbiːt/ adjective INFORMAL ► positive and with hope for the future: »High wheat prices have created an upbeat atmosphere in farming communities throughout the region. »The company was upbeat at its annual meeting, saying turnover and… …   Financial and business terms

  • upbeat — (adj.) with a positive mood, 1947, apparently from the musical noun upbeat (1869), referring to the beat of a bar at which the conductor s baton is in a raised position; the optimistic sense apparently for no other reason than that it sounds like …   Etymology dictionary

  • Upbeat —   [englisch, ʌpbiːt], Auftakt …   Universal-Lexikon

  • upbeat — [adj] cheerful buoyant, cheery, encouraging, favorable, fond, happy, heartening, hopeful, optimistic, positive, promising, rosy, sanguine; concepts 403,572 Ant. depressed, down, sad …   New thesaurus

  • upbeat — ► NOUN ▪ (in music) an unaccented beat preceding an accented beat. ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ cheerful; optimistic …   English terms dictionary

  • upbeat — [up′bēt΄; ] for adj., also [ up bēt′] n. 1. an upward trend; upswing 2. Music a) an unaccented beat, esp. when on the last note of a bar b) the upward stroke of a conductor s hand or baton indicating such a beat adj. Informal lively; cheerful;… …   English World dictionary

  • upbeat — [[t]ʌ̱pbiːt[/t]] upbeats 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If people or their opinions are upbeat, they are cheerful and hopeful about a situation. [INFORMAL] The Defense Secretary gave an upbeat assessment of the war so far... Neil s colleagues say he… …   English dictionary

  • upbeat — mod. bright and cheery; not negative. (Compare this with downbeat.) □ I’d prefer to open the conference with an upbeat topic. □ That topic is not upbeat. □ This piece of music has an upbeat flavor to it …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • upbeat — I. noun Date: 1869 1. an unaccented beat or portion of a beat in a musical measure; specifically the last beat of the measure 2. an increase in activity or prosperity < business that is on the upbeat > II. adjective Date: 1947 cheerful,… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • upbeat — 1. adjective a) Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat. The notes are easy, but its an upbeat tune and should be played fairly quickly. b) Having a positive, lively, or perky ton …   Wiktionary

  • upbeat — up|beat [ ʌp,bit ] adjective INFORMAL happy and positive because you are confident you will get what you want: upbeat about: The players seemed upbeat about their chances of winning …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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