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adjective
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optimistic; happy; cheerful: television dramas with predictably upbeat endings.
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Upbeat
is always a great word to know.
So is half note. Does it mean:
| note equivalent in time value to one half of a whole note |
| quarter rest that is lengthened by a dot |
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| upbeat (ˈʌpˌbiːt) | |
| —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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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"
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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