upbeat

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   cheerful and optimistic

   She kept an upbeat tone throughout the difficult meeting.

Common collocations

• upbeat song Adjective + noun

A compound of up plus beat; the musical sense (an unaccented beat preceding the downbeat) gave rise to the figurative 'cheerful' sense in the 20th century, partly by association with up ('positive').

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