Upbeat

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  upbeat
       adj : pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: {cheerful},
              {pollyannaish}]
       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}, {eudaemonia},


             {eudaimonia}] [ant: {ill-being}]
       2: an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "upbeat":
     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