OPTIMIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does optimist mean? • OPTIMIST (noun)
The noun OPTIMIST has 1 sense:
1. a person disposed to take a favorable view of things
Familiarity information: OPTIMIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OPTIMIST (noun)
Meaning:
A person disposed to take a favorable view of things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("optimist" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "optimist"):
chiliast; millenarian; millenarist (a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity))
Antonym:
pessimist (a person who expects the worst)
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