optimist
/ˈɒptɪmɪst/US/ˈɑptɪmɪst/
optimist noun: a person who expects a favourable outcome.
Noun (1)
optimist (plural optimists)
- A person who expects a favourable outcome.
- We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable...1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education...
- People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without...2017, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
- A believer in optimism.
Noun (2) capitalized: Optimist
Optimist (plural Optimists)
- A small centreboard sailing dinghy designed to train and introduce young children into sailing.
- Synonyms:
- Oppy
optimist meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
optimist in Hindi
- optimist
- आशावादी āśāvādī
optimist in Tamil
- உகமையர், நன்னம்பிக்கையாளர்
optimist in Marathi
- a person who expects a favourable outcome
- आशावादी āśāvādī
optimist in Urdu
- خوش بین, رجائی
More languagesFewer languages
- optimist in Bengali
- আশাবাদী ব্যক্তি
- optimist in Telugu
- ఆశావాది āśāvādi
- optimist in Malayalam
- ഗുണഭാഗദർശകൻ, ശുഭാപ്തിവിശ്വാസി, പ്രസാദാത്മകൻ
- optimist in Arabic
- مُتَفَائِل mutafāʔil
- optimist in Vietnamese
- người lạc quan
Examples of optimist in a sentence
- You call her an optimist, but I call her an obnoxious Pollyanna.
- He used to call himself a “fretful optimist,” he said, but now he’s a “moderate fatalist.”
- Are you an optimist or a cautionist when it comes to tech?
Synonyms of optimist
Antonyms
Forms of optimist
| plural | optimists |
|---|---|
| plural | Optimists |
Origin of optimist
Borrowed from French optimiste.
Words formed from optimist
Questions about optimist
- What does optimist mean?
- Optimist means a person who expects a favourable outcome.
- What is optimist in Hindi?
- Optimist in Hindi is आशावादी (āśāvādī). See Optimist meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is optimist?
- Optimist is a noun.
- How do you pronounce optimist?
- Optimist is pronounced /ˈɑptɪmɪst/ (US).
- What is the plural of optimist?
- The plural of optimist is optimists.
Words near optimist in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: optimist (page history and authors); Optimist (page history and authors); आशावादी (Hindi) (page history and authors); optimist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); optimist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); optimist (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఆశావాది (Telugu) (page history and authors); optimist (Malayalam 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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