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glass-half-full

glass-half-full adjective: optimistic.

Adjective

glass-half-full (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) optimistic
    • Normally she is an extremely positive, glass half-full sort of girl, someone who can find the silver lining in any situation. However, when it came to her breakup, she refused to see the many positive things that could come from it...2008, Megan Frost, Common Sense of a Different Kind: Matter-Of-Fact Thoughts on Women and Dating

glass-half-full meaning in Bengali

glass-half-full in Bengali

আশাবাদী

Antonyms of glass-half-full

Forms of glass-half-full

alternative formglass half full

Origin of glass-half-full

From the expression Is the glass half empty or half full?, the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.

Questions about glass-half-full

What does glass-half-full mean?
Glass-half-full means optimistic.
What is glass-half-full in Bengali?
Glass-half-full in Bengali is আশাবাদী. See Glass-half-full meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is glass-half-full?
Glass-half-full is an adjective.

Words near glass-half-full in the dictionary

  1. glass-crabs
  2. glass-door
  3. glass-doors
  4. glass-faced
  5. glass-half-empty
  6. glass-half-full
  7. glass-hearted
  8. glass-rope
  9. glass-ropes
  10. glass-to-glass
  11. glass-works

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Adapted from Wiktionary: glass-half-full (page history and authors); glass-half-full (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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