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Definition of over-optimistic in English: over-optimisticadjective Unjustifiably optimistic. 盲目乐观的，过分乐观的 I feel she is being rather over-optimistic Example sentencesExamples - A ten-minute bus ride, twenty minutes wandering round, several mobile phone calls, and an aborted cab journey later, I conceded I'd been over-optimistic.
- In the City, there was concern that the Chancellor's economic forecasts were still over-optimistic, with some analysts warning that he could be forced to raise taxes again.
- But in the York and Thirsk area, surveyors say purchasers are starting to negotiate over price and vendors are no longer getting away with over-optimistic pricing.
- He surrounded himself with a collection of young, inexperienced, and sycophantic staff officers, and often accepted their over-optimistic reports rather than the more realistic ones submitted by his chief of staff.
- However, hopes of peace breaking out could prove over-optimistic.
- Film-makers have been experimenting with 3 - D since 1903 and there has been a succession of over-optimistic claims that it is about to become a mainstream technology.
- It is clear he cannot rely any more on the over-optimistic predictions of the people who work for him.
- Frankly, I hope that he desists from knocking on my door at seven in the morning with some trivial problem, but I am not over-optimistic.
- Up at Speaker's Corner the audience numbered only six, so there was no need for one over-optimistic orator to have brought a stepladder along with him.
- The optimistic vision was presented at a council meeting last week, but some of its 43 measures were met with scepticism and labelled as over-optimistic.
- I had hoped I might develop a taste for it, but clearly I've been over-optimistic.
- Hopes that property developers and community groups can work together in revamping rundown inner city areas are often over-optimistic, according to research published today.
- Is it simply a speculative promotional ‘guess’ based on over-optimistic wishful thinking?
- It seems my ever over-optimistic supervisor thinks it is time I published a review paper on sludge dewatering for a peer reviewed journal.
- But target visitor numbers of at least 120 visitors a day proved vastly over-optimistic - only 62 people turned up in its opening week.
- Many social workers are often over-optimistic, and perhaps they sometimes allow that process of rehabilitation to take longer than it should.
- Thanks to over-optimistic buy-to-let purchasing, what was a £700-a-month flat in Glasgow's centre can now be let for £595.
- Well, today just has to be one of those object lessons in life - get over-optimistic, and things will definitely not turn out the way you hope.
- We predicted last quarter that the region's retailers may well issue further warnings in 2004 with some companies' over-optimistic expectations of the Christmas season coming home to roost.
- The admission that they had been over-optimistic in their estimates knocked the share prices of insurance companies across the globe.
Synonyms unrealistic, naive, foolish, foolishly optimistic, deluded, delusory, absurd, empty, vain
Derivativesnounˌəʊvərˈɒptɪmɪz(ə)m mass nounExcessive or unjustifiable optimism. 盲目乐观的，过分乐观的 he said signs were encouraging but warned against over-optimism Example sentencesExamples - And no, this isn't a case of over-optimism following Caley Thistle's 3-1 victory over Celtic this year.
- Either through over-optimism or inertia, UK corporate pensions are still hugely exposed to equities - still as high as 64% on average at the end of 2002.
- Maybe there was a sense of over-optimism after finishing fourth in the league last year.
adverb Or at least I, perhaps over-optimistically, aspired to humorous irreverence but let's move on. Example sentencesExamples - ‘In my view, many of the studies using bone marrow-derived stem cells have so far been interpreted over-optimistically.’
- Every so often a hurricane comes through and chews off a hunk of beach, where someone has over-optimistically built a vacation home.
- When life insurance companies became more competitive, they began buying up estate agents and over-optimistically projecting policies to offer the cheapest premiums.
- They were ‘partners, unequal no doubt in power but still equal in counsel’, he over-optimistically claimed.
- So what if the guy repeatedly emailed you asking for the update you had over-optimistically told him he would have.
- On the other hand the private purchase in 1846 of Philip IV Hunting Wild Boar, over-optimistically attributed to Velázquez, for £2,200, provoked howls of protest.
- Provision was made for up to 150 to attend - somewhat over-optimistically, she felt.
- But he doesn't want to be portrayed as a playboy, he frets rather over-optimistically.
- We must also remind all citizens and the ruling and opposition camps to not hold on to unrealistic illusions about cross-strait peace or to over-optimistically believe that peace is at hand.
- Now, perhaps over-optimistically, she hopes that I'm a Celebrity… will be her relaunch pad back into the public eye: ‘There's a TV show that I want to present and I need to raise my profile in order to do it.’
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