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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat] n
1: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles" [syn: wellbeing, well-being, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia] [ant: ill-being]
2: an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) [syn: upbeat, offbeat]

Merriam Webster's

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, optimistic <I'm feeling upbeat today>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. an unaccented beat in music. --adj. colloq. optimistic or cheerful.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(upbeats) 1. 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 was actually in a joking, upbeat mood... = positive ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. In music, the upbeat is the beat before the first beat of the bar. ? downbeat N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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