DOWNBEATS Antonyms

• tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas

• characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness

• being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits

• pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

• enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure

• marked by good fortune

• eagerly disposed to act or to be of service

• well expressed and to the point

• joyously unrestrained

• full of or producing joy

• full of high-spirited delight

• full of life and energy

• full of zest or vigor

• quick and energetic

• elastic; rebounds readily

• filled with events or activity

• full of spirit; full of life

• expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

• expecting the best

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

• of or relating to positivism

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• persuaded of; very sure

• involving advantage or good

• formally laid down or imposed

• impossible to deny or disprove

• greater than zero

• having a positive charge

• marked by excessive confidence

• a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

• an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

• pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

• the rise of something