Upbeat

Definition: Upbeat

Upbeat

Adjective

1. Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic.

Noun

1. A contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles".

2. An unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Upbeat

Crosswords: Upbeat

This is supposed to be upbeat, not uptight (Grace of My Heart; writing credit: Allison Anders)

Try to be a little more upbeat. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

We gotta keep the tempo upbeat all the time (Flipper Twist; performing artist: Flipper)

Upbeat (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Looney Tunes Piano Library: Scooby-Doo's Upbeat Songs (reference)

• Love Skills: A Fun, Upbeat Guide to Sex-cessful Relationships (Rev. ed.) (reference)

• Nashville : upbeat and down to business : a contemporary portrait (reference)

• Scooby-Doo's Upbeat Songs: Looney Tunes Piano Library (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• On the Upbeat (reference)

• Sky: An Upbeat Black Girl's Song (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Business

The Italian market is the least upbeat about accessories. (references)

The news for solar heating production was less upbeat, with an increase of only 8% in 1998 and an anticipated 9% increase in 1999. Because of the anticipated move of solar electric/PV being incorporated into the last NFFO tranche (December 1998), the PV firms increased production by 25% in 1998 and expect a 20% increase in 1999. In actuality, PV was not included in the fifth and last round of NFFO. In addition, exports of PV equipment are increasing for UK companies as the markets in Southern Europe, Africa, Japan and the U.S. develop. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

While the resulting mood was quite upbeat, all parties agree that the key will be action, not words. (references)

Saudi Arabia

Still, the oil and gas sector remains upbeat given that Saudi Arabia has enormous untapped gas potential. (references)

Political Economy

SOUTH AFRICA

The short and medium term prospects for South Africa are generally upbeat. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "upbeat": on the upbeat. Additional references.

Albanian

ngjitje (adhesion, agglutination, ascension, ascent, boost, clamber, climbing, contagion, elevation, gluing, Mount, osculation, soldering, splice, sticking, transmission, up, upgrade, welding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متفائل (bullish, hopeful, in expectancy, optimistic, pollyanna, rose colored, rose coloured, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, sunny), ‏مبتهج (alacrity, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyant, carefree, cheerful, cheery, debonair, delighted, delightful, elate, elated, exultant, gay, glad, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, jolly, joyful, joyous, jubilant, mellow, merry, mirthful, overjoyed, palmy, rejoicing), ‏سعيد (auspicious, blessed, blissful, blithe, carefree, felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate, gay, glad, happy, happy go lucky, high, in high spirits, joyful, joyous, lucky, merry, pi, pollyanna, providential, thankful, unstressed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

слабо време, възход (advance, ascent, rise), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, winsome), оптимистичен (elastic, optimistic, optimistical, rosy, sanguine, sunny). (various references)

Farsi 

موفق (Lucrative, Prosperous), ضربه غیرموکدمخصوصادرپایان قطعه , خوش بین (Optimist, Optimistic, Roseate), شادمان , شادکام (Merry). (various references)

French

optimiste, levé, content. (various references)

German

Auftakt (prelude, prolog, prologue, start). (various references)

Hebrew 

אופטימי (optimist, optimistic, rose coloured). (various references)

Hungarian

zenei felütés, jópofa, hangsúlytalan ritmusrész, felütés, beintés (cue), ütemelőző. (various references)

Italian

levare (abolish, get out, get up, levy, lift, quench, raise, remove, rise, subtract, take away, take off, take out, withdraw). (various references)

Pig Latin

eatupbay.(various references)

Portuguese

otimista (optimist, optimistic), movimentado (abuzz, active, bustling), ascenso. (various references)

Russian 

отмашка такта, неожиданный (off-guard, sudden, surprising, uncontemplated, undreamedof, undreamtof, unexpected, unhoped, unlooked for, unlooked-for, unrehearsed, unsuspected). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

optimizam (optimism). (various references)

Spanish

tiempo ocio, tiempo no acentuado, tiempo débil, optimista (buoyant, hopeful, optimist, optimistic, rose colored, rose coloured, sanguine), aumento (accession, accretion, augmentation, build up, expansion, extension, gain, growth, hike, improvement, increase, increment, magnification, putting on, raise, rise, upturn), animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, pert, sprightly, zippy), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

upptakt (anacrusis, beginning, preamble, run up, run-up), optimistisk (optimistic, optimistical, sanguine). (various references)

Turkish

vurgusuz tempo, neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious), eğlenceli (amusing, enjoyable, entertaining, fun, lively, rollicking, saturnalian, sociable). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "upbeat": upbeats. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Upbeat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dubedat, rubayat, Ubaydat, ubet, upea, upeat, upseat. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: beaut, taupe, tubae.

-2 letters: abet, abut, bate, beat, beau, beta, bute, pate, peat, tabu, tape, tepa, tuba, tube.

-3 letters: ape, apt, ate, bap, bat, bet, but, eat, eau, eta, pat, pea, pet, pub, put, tab, tae, tap, tau, tea, tub, tup, uta.

-4 letters: ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, pa, pe, ta, up, ut.

+1 letter: upbeats.

+2 letters: abrupter, pubertal.

+3 letters: abruptest, imputable, reputable, reputably.

+4 letters: abruptness, bankrupted, computable, disputable, permutable, subchapter, subprimate, unbaptized.

+5 letters: perambulate, perturbable, prepubertal, protuberant, subchapters, subprimates, supportable, unadaptable, unadoptable, unpalatable, unprintable, unstoppable.