optimistic
adjective
disposed to take a favorable view of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
overoptimistically
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a word derived from
optimistic.
Example Sentences
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Says Feinstein, perhaps overoptimistically: "I think most people look beyond those things."
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McGovern's aides comforted themselves, perhaps overoptimistically, with the thought that they had set the "radical issue" to rest in the same way that John Kennedy overcame the Catholicism issue in West Virginia's primary in 1960.
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Britain's Board of Education last month boasted, probably overoptimistically, that 97.8% of its schoolchildren would soon be back at full-time schooling.
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Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health.
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Added another aide, perhaps overoptimistically: "I really think that this is the precipitating event that will cause the pendulum to swing the other way."
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