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Meaning of optimist in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    optimist

    Definitions

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

    Antonyms

    • pessimist

Famous quotes

  • « You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. »
    Robert Collier
  • « I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative. »
    Betty White
  • « I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. »
    Steve Jobs
  • « A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious. »
    Dee Dee Myers
  • « Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. »
    Garry Shandling

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