optimist
See also: Optimist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”) + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒptɪmɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]optimist (plural optimists)
- A person who expects a favourable outcome.
- 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238:
- We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
- 2017, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think[1]:
- People often call me an optimist, because I show them the enormous progress they didn't know about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;
- A believer in optimism.
Antonyms
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[edit]a person who expects a favourable outcome
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a believer in optimism
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a small centre-board sailing dinghy
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Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]optimist c (singular definite optimisten, plural indefinite optimister)
Declension
[edit]Declension of optimist
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | optimist | optimisten | optimister | optimisterne |
| genitive | optimists | optimistens | optimisters | optimisternes |
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French optimiste, from Latin optimus + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]optimist m (plural optimisten, diminutive optimistje n, feminine optimiste)
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[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimister, definite plural optimistene)
- an optimist (a person who expects a favourable outcome, or a believer in optimism)
- Antonym: pessimist
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[edit]- “optimist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “optimist” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Noun
[edit]optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimistar, definite plural optimistane)
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[edit]- “optimist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French optimiste. By surface analysis, optim + -ist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]optimist m or n (feminine singular optimistă, masculine plural optimiști, feminine and neuter plural optimiste)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | optimist | optimistă | optimiști | optimiste | |||
| definite | optimistul | optimista | optimiștii | optimistele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | optimist | optimiste | optimiști | optimiste | |||
| definite | optimistului | optimistei | optimiștilor | optimistilor | ||||
Noun
[edit]optimist m (plural optimiști, feminine equivalent optimistă)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | optimist | optimistul | optimiști | optimiștii | |
| genitive-dative | optimist | optimistului | optimiști | optimiștilor | |
| vocative | optimistule | optimiștilor | |||
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]optimist c
Declension
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