downbeat

Synonyms

bearish, defeatist, despairing, hopeless, pessimistic;

Antonyms

hopeful, optimistic, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat;

Near Antonyms

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, promising, propitious;

cheering, comforting, reassuring;

favorable, good, positive;

idealist, romantic, utopian, visionary;

cheerful, cheery, chipper, sunny;

Related Words

cynical, fatalistic, nihilist, nihilistic;

desperate, discouraging, disheartening, inauspicious, unlikely, unpromising;

bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen;

grim;

contrary, hostile, negative;