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adjective

Optimistic adj.

(Metaph.) Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.

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Etymology of 'Optimistic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Optimistic" Quotes from Famous Books

... she said, "my father was robust and active in spite of his age. He was cheerful, busy, and optimistic. But he fell into a decline. It has not been a sudden sapping of his strength. If it were that I should not worry so much; I'd attribute it to disease. But every day something of vitality goes from him. He is fading almost from hour to hour, ...

— The Night Horseman • Max Brand

... called even by the generous estimate of the optimistic westerner a town. It consisted of a blacksmith's shop, with which was combined the Post Office, a little school, which did for church—the farthest outpost of civilization—and a manse, simple, neat and tiny, ...

— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor

... villagers are not caricatures; they are efficient, useful men and women whose individualities have been crystallized into distinct outlines by their limited environments and intimate relations. The book is happily optimistic, presenting, indeed, the commonplaces of narrow lives but breathing also the underlying spirit ...

— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon

... by the very nature of her new and optimistic creed, was powerless to stand out against him. Earlier, fathoming his purposes, she would have raged, have burst into a passion. Now she could only minister to him with an impassive calm, while, in her secret heart, she was piously commending him to the attention of the Universal Mind ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... disappointed by the optimistic turn of my sagacity. She rested her eyes on my face as though in doubt whether I had enough femininity in my ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

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