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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing positively |
| Synonyms: | Utopian, assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident, encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic, keeping the faith, merry, on cloud nine, on top of world, positive, promising, ray of sunshine, rose-colored, rosy, sanguine, sunny*, trusting, upbeat |
| Notes: | hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means expecting the best |
| Antonyms: | dejected, depressed, doubtful, gloomy, hopeless, pessimistic, sorrowful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful |
| Synonyms: | alert, animated, gay, genial, glad, happy, jolly, joyful, joyous, keen, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, sanguine, spirited, sprightly, vivacious |
| Antonyms: | depressed, depressing, doleful, dreary, gloomy, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | cheerful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant, cheery, chipper, chirpy, contented, effervescent, enlivening, enthusiastic, full of pep, gay, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, hearty, high, hilarious, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, jaunty, jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, peppy, perky, pleasant, roseate, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, sunny, sunny side up, up*, upbeat, vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy |
| Antonyms: | cheerless, depressed, gloomy, grave, heavy, melancholy, sad, serious, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | idealistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | visionary |
| Synonyms: | abstracted, chimerical, dreaming, idealized, impractical, optimistic, quixotic, radical, romantic, starry-eyed, unrealistic, utopian |
| Notes: | ideal means conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; idealistic means of or pertaining to idealists or their theories, pursuing perfection |
| Main Entry: | rosy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful, hopeful |
| Synonyms: | alluring, auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, glowing, likely, optimistic, pleasing, promising, reassuring, rose-colored, roseate, sunny |
| Antonyms: | depressing, hopeless, sad |
| Main Entry: | starry-eyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrealistic |
| Synonyms: | dreaming, half-baked, hoping, impossible, improbable, ivory-tower, nonrealistic, not sensible, on cloud nine, optimistic, romantic, silly |
| Main Entry: | sunny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | beaming, blithe, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, genial, joyful, lighthearted, lightsome, optimistic, pleasant, smiling, sunbeamy |
| Antonyms: | gloomy, sorrowful, sullen, unhappy, upset |
| Main Entry: | upbeat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful |
| Synonyms: | buoyant, cheery, encouraging, favorable, fond, happy, heartening, hopeful, optimistic, positive, promising, rosy, sanguine |
| Notes: | an emphasized beat is the downbeat and unemphasized beat is upbeat |
| Antonyms: | depressed, down, sad |
| Main Entry: | encouraged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heartened |
| Synonyms: | aided, animated, cheered, confident, determined, emboldened, enlivened, enthusiastic, fearless, hopeful, inspired, inspirited, optimistic, reassured, renewed, roused, supported |
| Antonyms: | discouraged, disheartened, dispirited |
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