'upbeat' definitions:
Definition of 'upbeat'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn: cheerful, pollyannaish, upbeat]
noun
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]
noun
An unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) [syn: upbeat, offbeat]
Synonyms of 'upbeat'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Great Leap Forward,
- headway,
- heartening,
- improvement,
- Leibnizian,
- 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