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Meaning of upbeat

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  upbeat
      adj 1: pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic [syn:
             {cheerful}, {pollyannaish}, {upbeat}]
      n 1: a contented state of being happy and healthy and
           prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our
           recent troubles" [syn: {wellbeing}, {well-being},
           {welfare}, {upbeat}, {eudaemonia}, {eudaimonia}] [ant:
           {ill-being}]
      2: an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)
         [syn: {upbeat}, {offbeat}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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