upbeat

mod. bright and cheery; not negative. (Compare this with downbeat.) I’d prefer to open the conference with an upbeat topic.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mohinder	-	Indian (Sikh)
Abd Al-Rashid	-	Arabic
Gal (2)	-	Slovene
Elisa	e-LEE-zah (Italian, German), E-lee-sah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, English
Annegret	AH-ne-gret	German
Consolata	kon-so-LAH-tah	Italian