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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Recent Examples of optimist
And Cain and guitarist Neal Schon appear to have remained among the cockeyed optimists.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
Those who give themselves an 8 or higher on the question about the future are categorized as optimists.
—Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Hoffman is a technologist by pedigree and an optimist by temperament.
—Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
If fashion capitals had distinct personalities, Copenhagen’s would be the optimist.
—Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
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Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
Those who give themselves an 8 or higher on the question about the future are categorized as optimists.
—Linley Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
Hoffman is a technologist by pedigree and an optimist by temperament.
—Josh Tyrangiel, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
If fashion capitals had distinct personalities, Copenhagen’s would be the optimist.
—Daisy Maldonado, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimist
dreamer
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Manufacturing scale will separate winners from dreamers.—
Ravin Gandhi,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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Such psychedelic experience is echoed in a local belief that the forest spirit appears to dreamers in the form of a tiger.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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