Upbeat

Adjective

 * 1) Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
 * The notes are easy, but it's an upbeat tune and should be played fairly quickly.
 * 1) Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc.
 * Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future.

Antonyms

 * downbeat

Noun

 * 1) An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.

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

Alternative forms

 * up-beat

Adjective

 * Finnish: nopeatempoinen, nopea


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Anagrams

 * beat up, beat-up