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optimist
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1 optimist
A person disposed to take a favorable view of things.
Roget 935:
flatterer,
adulator;
eulogist,
euphemist;
optimist,
encomiast,
laudator [Lat.],
whitewasher.
toady,
toadeater†;
sycophant,
courtier,
Sir Pertinax MacSycophant;
flaneur [Fr.],
proneur [Fr.];
puffer,
touter†,
claqueur [Fr.];
clawback†,
earwig,
doer of dirty work;
parasite,
hanger-on
etc.
(servility)
886.
yes-man,
suckup,
ass-kisser [Vulg.],
brown-noser [Vulg.],
teacher's pet.
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Roget 858:
hope,
hopes;
desire
etc.
865;
fervent hope,
sanguine expectation,
trust,
confidence,
reliance;
faith
etc.
(belief)
484;
affiance,
assurance;
secureness,
security;
reassurance.
good omen,
good auspices;
promise,
well grounded hopes;
good prospect,
bright prospect;
clear sky.
assumption,
presumption;
anticipation
etc.
(expectation)
507.
hopefulness,
buoyancy,
optimism,
enthusiasm,
heart of grace,
aspiration.
[person who is hopeful]
optimist,
utopian,
utopist†.
castles in the air,
castles in Spain,
chateaux en Espagne [Fr.],
le pot aut lait [Fr.],
Utopia,
millennium;
day dream,
golden dream;
dream of Alnaschar†;
airy hopes,
fool's paradise;
mirage
etc.
(fallacies of vision)
443;
fond hope.
beam of hope,
ray of hope,
gleam of hope,
glimmer of hope,
flash of hope,
dawn of hope,
star of hope;
cheer;
bit of blue sky,
silver lining,
silver lining of the cloud,
bottom of Pandora's box,
balm in Gilead;
light at the end of the tunnel.
anchor,
sheet anchor,
mainstay;
staff
etc.
(support)
215;
heaven
etc.
981.
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Nederlands: optimist
Pools: optymista
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast, dreamer, hopeful, hoper, idealist, irrepressible optimist, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, positivist, ray of sunshine, utopian.
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