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Definition of optimist in English: optimistnoun ˈɒptɪmɪst 1A person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something. only an eternal optimist could expect success Example sentencesExamples - Optimists hope the Sept. 22 elections will bring change.
- They are the starry-eyed optimists who cannot wait for adulthood to take the world for all it has to offer.
- Optimists say these initiatives could show the way for federal programs.
- Stock market optimists point to signs of resilience in the wider US economy, citing stronger than expected consumer confidence figures.
- The outlook exceeds what most optimists thought possible just a few years ago.
- Optimists claim we are on the right track, but still cancer refuses to yield.
- An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
- Optimists argue that the U.S. will keep its innovation lead because it has invented new products before.
- Even the most ardent Internet optimists would likely concede that basic reading skills have to precede computer literacy.
- Her cousin must be either naive, or a hopeless optimist.
2Philosophy A person who believes that this world is the best of all possible worlds or that good must ultimately prevail over evil. Example sentencesExamples - Hansberry was both a realist and an optimist, viewing the world with what she described as "sighted eyes and feeling heart".
- I thought I was an optimist, but I'm just a utopian.
- Pessimists and optimists differ in how they explain the causes of both good and bad events.
- Noguchi was a man of dualities: West and East, coarse and refined, optimist and realist.
- He identifies himself as a staunch optimist and an embodiment of positive thinking.
- Such a hands-off view, coupled with the posit of ontologically distinctive quantifiers, is endorsed by various optimists, including McDaniel.
- Thoreau thought he was an exceptional man, a philosopher of great faith, and an optimist.
- Again, the philosophers have been charged as utopians and shallow optimists.
Definition of optimist in US English: optimistnounˈäptəməst 1A person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something. only an eternal optimist could expect success Example sentencesExamples - An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
- Optimists hope the Sept. 22 elections will bring change.
- Even the most ardent Internet optimists would likely concede that basic reading skills have to precede computer literacy.
- Optimists claim we are on the right track, but still cancer refuses to yield.
- Optimists say these initiatives could show the way for federal programs.
- The outlook exceeds what most optimists thought possible just a few years ago.
- Stock market optimists point to signs of resilience in the wider US economy, citing stronger than expected consumer confidence figures.
- Her cousin must be either naive, or a hopeless optimist.
- Optimists argue that the U.S. will keep its innovation lead because it has invented new products before.
- They are the starry-eyed optimists who cannot wait for adulthood to take the world for all it has to offer.
2Philosophy A person who believes that this world is the best of all possible worlds or that good must ultimately prevail over evil. Example sentencesExamples - Again, the philosophers have been charged as utopians and shallow optimists.
- Noguchi was a man of dualities: West and East, coarse and refined, optimist and realist.
- Such a hands-off view, coupled with the posit of ontologically distinctive quantifiers, is endorsed by various optimists, including McDaniel.
- Thoreau thought he was an exceptional man, a philosopher of great faith, and an optimist.
- Pessimists and optimists differ in how they explain the causes of both good and bad events.
- Hansberry was both a realist and an optimist, viewing the world with what she described as "sighted eyes and feeling heart".
- He identifies himself as a staunch optimist and an embodiment of positive thinking.
- I thought I was an optimist, but I'm just a utopian.
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