Upbeat vs Brisk - What's the difference?
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Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc.
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
Stimulating or invigorating.
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
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As adjectives the difference between upbeat and brisk
is that upbeat is having a fast pace, tempo, or beat while brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.As a noun upbeat
is an unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.As a verb brisk is
to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.upbeat
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Alternative forms
* up-beatAdjective
(en adjective)- The notes are easy, but it's an upbeat tune and should be played fairly quickly.
- Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future.
- He sounded upbeat when I talked to him.
Antonyms
* downbeatAnagrams
*brisk
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Adjective
(en-adj)- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.