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

China has long been a nation of techno-optimists, and not just because software and engineering — from smartphones to high-speed trains to drone deliveries — have radically improved life across the country in the span of a single generation. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 7 July 2026

In the great debate over how to address the national debt crisis, optimists suggest that expanding the economy is preferable to cutting federal spending. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 2 July 2026

Andy Sachs exemplifies an adaptive optimist, challenging norms and fostering open environments through self-reflection and curiosity. — Kate Wieczorek, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Advertisement If Rogen was the optimist, did that make Wilde the pessimist? — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 26 June 2026