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optimist

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of optimist

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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of optimist

Micawber, Pollyanna

Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

emotionalist, sentimentalist

daydreamer, fantasizer, woolgatherer

do-gooder, reformer

doctrinaire, theorist, thinker

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of optimist

cynic, defeatist, pessimist

empiric, empiricist

hardnose, pragmatist, realist

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