Synonyms of optimist

optimist

noun

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.

Related Words

• dreamer
• romantic
• idealist
• idealizer
• Pollyanna
• romanticist
• sentimentalist
• visionary
• Micawber
• Don Quixote
• ideologue
• daydreamer
• utopian
• emotionalist
• fantast
• perfectionist
• theorist
• thinker
• reformer
• do-gooder
• fantasizer
• woolgatherer
• doctrinaire

Dissimilar Words

• pessimist
• cynic
• defeatist
• realist
• empiricist
• pragmatist
• empiric
• hardnose

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of optimist

The rewards Gates, ever the optimist, also outlines some major boons the technology holds. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026

In this case, the optimist in your friend group might be the better call than even a master negotiator. — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Polarized in terms of, like, sometimes people will distinguish AI doomers and AI optimists. — Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2026

Now the rot is right there on the surface; the people smiling are less likely to be clueless optimists than the people who are happy about the rot, or profiting from it. — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026