yeasayer
Americannoun
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a person with an optimistic and confident outlook.
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a person who habitually agrees with or is submissive to others.
Etymology
Origin of yeasayer
First recorded in 1915–20; yea + (nay)sayer
Example Sentences
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He is the man in love with life, the Nietzschean yeasayer who devours all ex perience, even the experience of a brutal beating, and finds it nourishing.
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