optimistic
adjective
Origin of optimistic
Related Words for optimistic
utopian, assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheering, confident, encouraged, expectant, happy, high, hopeful, hoping, idealistic, merry, positive, promising, rose-colored, rosy, sanguineExamples from the Web for optimistic
Contemporary Examples of optimistic
Today, liberal Protestantism is on the wane, and optimistic postmillennialism along with it.
In fact, there are a number of good reasons to be optimistic.
Backers of reform certainly hope so and believe it might have been too optimistic to expect change this year.
He then struck an optimistic note, saying his own life is proof that we have made great progress in matters of race.
The stories, meanwhile, close on open notes, if not optimistic ones.
Historical Examples of optimistic
Mechanically, you raise your hand to lift away your optimistic spectacles.
De Libris: Prose and VerseAustin Dobson
Hope it will work out all right; and am inclined to be optimistic.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
"That is only nerves," said Cornish, who was ever optimistic and cheerful.
Roden's CornerHenry Seton Merriman
And he is so optimistic and willing, and his notes are so golden with the yellow of sunshine!
The ForestStewart Edward White
Giving my opinion as a lawyer, I could not take an optimistic view of the matter.
Lotus BudsAmy Carmichael