- Hopeful
- Nincompoop Tim is tickling too much for looking on the bright side
- Opt to miss tic? ...Sounds hopeful
- Sanguine
- Upbeat
- Vision-related, Tim is inside and hopeful
- Wishful-thinking
- Expectant
- Glass half-full
- Heartening
- Optimistic
- Promising success
- Skip over spilled fuel? That’s optimistic
- Upbeat
- Upbeat (mus)
- That part of a foot where the ictus is put, or which is
distinguished from the rest (known as the thesis) of the foot by a
greater stress of voice.
- That elevation of voice now called metrical accentuation, or
the rhythmic accent.
- The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which
it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar;
-- opposed to thesis.