optimist
optimist is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adulator
- affiance
- air
- airy
- anchor
- anticipation
- aspiration
- assumption
- assurance
- balm
- beam
- belief
- bit
- blue
- bottom
- box
- bright
- buoyancy
- cheer
- claqueur
- clawback
- clear
- cloud
- confidence
- courtier
- dawn
- day
- desire
- dirty
- doer
- dream
- earwig
- encomiast
- end
- enthusiasm
- eulogist
- expectation
- faith
- fervent
- flaneur
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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