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optimists

optimists is the plural of optimist.

Meaning of optimist

Noun

optimist (plural optimists)

  1. 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...
  2. A believer in optimism.

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Noun capitalized: Optimists

Optimists

  1. (plural) plural of Optimist

Questions about optimists

What is optimists the plural of?
Optimists is the plural of optimist.
What part of speech is optimists?
Optimists is a noun.

Words near optimists in the dictionary

  1. optimistic
  2. optimistic concurrencies
  3. optimistic concurrency
  4. optimistical
  5. optimistically
  6. optimists
  7. optimity
  8. optimizable
  9. optimization
  10. optimization problem
  11. optimization problems

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