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OPTIMIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does optimist mean? 

OPTIMIST (noun)
  The noun OPTIMIST has 1 sense:

1. a person disposed to take a favorable view of thingsplay

  Familiarity information: OPTIMIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OPTIMIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("optimist" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optimist"):

chiliast; millenarian; millenarist (a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity))

Antonym:

pessimist (a person who expects the worst)

Derivation:

optimism (a general disposition to expect the best in all things)

optimism (the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well)


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