Synonyms of optimists

optimists

noun

plural of optimist

as in dreamers

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

• dreamers
• romantics
• idealizers
• idealists
• Pollyannas
• utopians
• romanticists
• sentimentalists
• visionaries
• ideologues
• Micawbers
• daydreamers
• Don Quixotes
• emotionalists
• theorists
• fantasts
• perfectionists
• reformers
• thinkers
• do-gooders
• fantasizers
• woolgatherers
• doctrinaires

Dissimilar Words

• pessimists
• cynics
• defeatists
• realists
• empiricists
• pragmatists
• empirics
• hardnoses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of optimists

But there are still optimists who point out the potential upside is still vast. — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

My favourite part of this exercise is seeing the distribution of optimists and pessimists. — Janson Duench, New York Times, 15 Sep. 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

That gloom extends far beyond assessments of the current time period; the Post/Ipsos poll found that 59% of Americans doubt their family's ability to improve their standard of living, outnumbering optimists by nearly 20 points. — Emily Guskin, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Finally, of course, there are the ambitious optimists, people betting that fresh leadership will shake CNN out of it slumber (and give themselves a high-profile role to help achieve those goals). — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Reading rates might fluctuate, but optimists argue that the long arc of history points toward universal literacy. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

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