optimist

See also: Optimist

English

Etymology

From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”) +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒptɪmɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

optimist (plural optimists)

1. 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:

     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.;

2. A believer in optimism.

Antonyms

• pessimist

Derived terms

• antioptimist
• cyberoptimist
• optimistic
• pessoptimist
• poptimist
• skeptimist
• techno-optimist

Related terms

• optimism
• optimal

Translations

a person who expects a favourable outcome

Arabic: مُتَفَائِل (mutafāʔil) Armenian: լավատես (hy) (lavates) Azerbaijani: nikbin, nikbin adam Catalan: optimista (ca) m or f Chinese: Mandarin: 樂天派 / 乐天派 (zh) (lètiānpài) Czech: optimista (cs) m Dutch: optimist (nl) m Esperanto: optimisto Finnish: optimisti (fi) French: optimiste (fr) m or f Galician: optimista m or f Georgian: ოპტიმისტი (oṗṭimisṭi) German: Optimist (de) m, Optimistin (de) f Greek: αισιόδοξος (el) (aisiódoxos) Hebrew: אופטימי (he) m (optími), אופטימיסט m (optimíst) Hungarian: optimista (hu) Ido: optimisto (io) Japanese: 楽観主義者 (らっかんしゅぎしゃ, rakkan-shugisha) Latvian: optimists m Lithuanian: optimistas m Maori: kiri mariu Marathi: आशावादी m or f (āśāvādī) Norwegian: Bokmål: optimist m Nynorsk: optimist m Polish: optymista (pl) m, optymistka (pl) f Portuguese: otimista (pt) m or f Romanian: optimist (ro) m, optimistă (ro) f Russian: оптими́ст (ru) m (optimíst), оптими́стка (ru) f (optimístka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: оптѝмист m Roman: optìmist (sh) m Spanish: optimista (es) m or f Swedish: optimist (sv) c Turkish: optimist (tr), iyimser (tr), nikbin (tr) (archaic) Ukrainian: оптиміст m (optymist) Vietnamese: người lạc quan Volapük: (♂♀) frediman (vo), (♂) hifrediman, (♀) jifrediman

a believer in optimism

Armenian: լավատես (hy) (lavates) Catalan: optimista (ca) m or f Dutch: optimist (nl) m French: optimiste (fr) m or f German: Optimist (de) m, Optimistin (de) f Hebrew: אופטימי (he) m (optími), אופטימיסט m (optimíst) Japanese: 楽観主義者 (らっかんしゅぎしゃ, rakkan-shugisha) Norwegian: Bokmål: optimist m Nynorsk: optimist m Portuguese: otimista (pt) m or f Russian: оптими́ст (ru) m (optimíst), оптими́стка (ru) f (optimístka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: оптѝмист m Roman: optìmist (sh) m Swedish: optimist (sv) c Turkish: optimist (tr), iyimser (tr) Volapük: (♂♀) frediman (vo), (♂) hifrediman, (♀) jifrediman

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Dutch: optimist (nl) m Finnish: optimistijolla (fi) Hebrew: אופטימיסט m (optimíst) Norwegian: Optimist m Bokmål: optimistjolle m or f Nynorsk: optimistjolle f Swedish: optimistjolle c

Danish

Etymology

From French optimiste.

Noun

optimist c (singular definite optimisten, plural indefinite optimister)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Declension

Declension of optimist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	optimist	optimisten	optimister	optimisterne
genitive	optimists	optimistens	optimisters	optimisternes

References

• “optimist” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “optimist” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French optimiste, from Latin optimus +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔp.tiˈmɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: op‧ti‧mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

optimist m (plural optimisten, diminutive optimistje n, feminine optimiste)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• optimiste
• optimistisch
• rasoptimist

Related terms

• optimisme

Descendants

• → Indonesian: optimis

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimister, definite plural optimistene)

1. an optimist (a person who expects a favourable outcome, or a believer in optimism)

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• tidsoptimist

Related terms

• optimisme

References

• “optimist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “optimist” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimistar, definite plural optimistane)

1. an optimist (as above)

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• tidsoptimist

Related terms

• optimisme

References

• “optimist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French optimiste. By surface analysis, optim +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op.tiˈmist/

• Audio:

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Adjective

optimist m or n (feminine singular optimistă, masculine plural optimiști, feminine/neuter plural optimiste)

1. optimistic

Declension

Declension of optimist

		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	optimistelor

Noun

optimist m (plural optimiști, feminine equivalent optimistă)

1. optimist

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	optimist	optimistul		optimiști	optimiștii
genitive-dative	optimist	optimistului		optimiști	optimiștilor
vocative	optimistule			optimiștilor

Swedish

Noun

optimist c

1. an optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Declension

Declension of optimist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	optimist	optimists
	definite	optimisten	optimistens
plural	indefinite	optimister	optimisters
	definite	optimisterna	optimisternas

Related terms

• optimism
• optimistisk

See also

• optimistjolle

References

• optimist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• optimist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)