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
Erich	E-rikh	German
Andrea (1)	ahn-DRE-ah	Italian
VeslemØY	-	Norwegian
Sverrir	-	Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic
Maor	-	Hebrew
Stepan	stye-PAHN (Russian), stee-PAHN (Russian)	Russian, Armenian