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optimist

How to use optimist in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for optimist.

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I don't know where you heard 2016, he said 4-5 years, and that's being optimistic.

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Quick take

a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of optimist gathered in one view.

noun

a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for optimist.

noun

a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

Example sentences

1

I don't know where you heard 2016, he said 4-5 years, and that's being optimistic.

2

My guess is that’s, that’s probably a little optimistic.

3

I'm kind of an optimist; I believe it'll only be a matter of hours total outage.

4

There's was a certain point in my transformation from an optimist to a pessimist where I was just so angry.

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In fact, I am a supreme optimist about the beauty of living and about having hopes of doing great things and doing one's best to achieve them.

6

I feel fortunate to be an eternal optimist who knows these things are temporary, but the startup lows are about as low as they come.

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The optimist in me hopes that a future president will pardon you and otherwise reverse this self-destructive course the US is on.

8

I hope the US Gov will have the decency to admit it was fair game and not try to retaliate, but I must say based on past outcomes I'm not optimist about that.

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I get varying amounts of flak for constantly posting about the quality and nature of HN comments, but as an unabashed optimist it means a lot to me to me.

10

The optimist would say that everyone would start creating new art, music, machines, etc. I think somewhere in between, but that somewhere in between is still vastly more interesting than what we have now.

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How HN page rankings really work: you vote stuff up, and then the flag mob and hidden moderators axe right off the front page whatever irritates the pro-capitalist internet-libertarian techno-optimist idelogical sensibilities of the \nwhite male Californian HN hive mind even in the subtlest of ways.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use optimist in a sentence?

I don't know where you heard 2016, he said 4-5 years, and that's being optimistic.

What does optimist mean?

a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

What part of speech is optimist?

optimist is commonly used as noun.