upbeat
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adjective
3.
optimistic; happy; cheerful: television dramas with predictably upbeat endings.
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| —n | |
| 1. | music |
| a. a usually unaccented beat, esp the last in a bar | |
| b. Compare downbeat the upward gesture of a conductor's baton indicating this | |
| 2. | an upward trend (in prosperity, etc) |
| —adj | |
| 3. | informal marked by cheerfulness or optimism |
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Upbeat
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Word Origin & History
upbeat
"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 a happy word (the musical upbeat is no more inherently "positive"
than any other beat).
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Slang Dictionary
upbeat definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Or you may feel guilty for not acting upbeat or cheerful.
We spoke about the magazine's future, and he sounded confident and upbeat.
The music is upbeat and the dancers extremely energetic, their costumes beautiful.
It is also possible that today's high prices are giving misleadingly upbeat signals.
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