as in dreamer
a person who usually expects good things to happen
You have to be a bit of an optimist to start a business. Somehow he remained an optimist despite all that had happened to him.
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The wedding was planned for when the World Series had ended, because an optimist might have expected Kauffman Stadium to be in use.
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
The eternal optimist, Rajaković is not wrong about any of that.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Gunn the cockeyed empathetic optimist didn’t make his public debut until the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The path to Level 5 autonomous driving has turned out to be a much longer and bumpy one than the optimists once hoped.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Nov. 2025
The eternal optimist, Rajaković is not wrong about any of that.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Gunn the cockeyed empathetic optimist didn’t make his public debut until the first Guardians of the Galaxy.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
The path to Level 5 autonomous driving has turned out to be a much longer and bumpy one than the optimists once hoped.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimist
dreamer
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Our country has been built by immigrants, refugees, dreamers and fighters—people who came here driven by hope and the belief that a better life was possible.—
Grace Meng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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The trail traces nearly 100 miles of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail, a route that once carried traders, settlers, and dreamers westward during America’s frontier expansion.—
Erin Gifford,
Outside,
30 Oct. 2025
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