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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of optimist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the best-case scenario from skeptics and cautious optimists, however, the promise of AI will take much longer to materialize than the current investment frenzy suggests. —Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 12 July 2024

There are a lot of agonists in women’s tennis; Paolini seems like the rare, irrepressible optimist. —Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 July 2024

Some of Wall Street’s AI optimists, on the other hand, are expecting this week’s reports to check important boxes. —Paulina Likos, CNBC, 30 July 2024

Bruni said in a recent appearance that America has gone from being a nation of optimists to one of pessimists. —Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024