optimist

From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”) +‎ -ist.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒptɪmɪst/

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optimist (plural optimists)

1. A person who expects a favourable outcome.
   • 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, Inc., page 238:

     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 future.

   • 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^[1]:

     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 reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;

2. A believer in optimism.

• pessimist

• optimistic
• techno-optimist

• optimism
• optimal

optimist c (singular definite optimisten, plural indefinite optimister)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Borrowed from French optimiste, from Latin optimus +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔp.tiˈmɪst/

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• Hyphenation: op‧ti‧mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

optimist m (plural optimisten, diminutive optimistje n, feminine optimiste)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

• optimisme

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimister, definite plural optimistene)

1. an optimist (a person who expects a favourable outcome, or a believer in optimism)

   Antonym: pessimist

• tidsoptimist

• optimisme

• “optimist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “optimist” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimistar, definite plural optimistane)

1. an optimist (as above)

   Antonym: pessimist

• tidsoptimist

• optimisme

• “optimist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French optimiste. By surface analysis, optim +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /op.tiˈmist/

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optimist m or n (feminine singular optimistă, masculine plural optimiști, feminine and neuter plural optimiste)

1. optimistic

optimist m (plural optimiști, feminine equivalent optimistă)

1. optimist

optimist c

1. an optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

• optimism
• optimistisk

• optimistjolle

• optimist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• optimist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)