adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a confident/optimistic/relaxed etc mood
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At the beginning of the negotiations, he was in a confident mood.
a positive/optimistic outlook
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Despite her health problems, she has a positive outlook.
optimistic (= expecting good things to happen )
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In his speech, the President gave an optimistic forecast for the economy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
cautiously
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For 1996, however, analysts are cautiously optimistic .
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She was weak, but comfortable and I was cautiously optimistic .
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But you are cautiously optimistic because of the constructive atmosphere in which the talks took place.
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After the meeting, team members felt cautiously optimistic .
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The student was cautiously optimistic for the future.
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The ideology of environmentalism was cautiously optimistic about social amelioration and human progress.
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Moreover, he is cautiously optimistic about the future of societies, claiming there has been a recent rekindling of interest.
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But I am cautiously optimistic about the atmosphere in which the talks were conducted.
generally
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The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period.
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Although generally optimistic , Dan knew that more challenges lay ahead.
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I was generally optimistic but emphasised the potential for serious attacks.
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The report painted a generally optimistic picture of Britain continuing to recover from the worst recession since 1945.
less
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Others were less optimistic , pointing out that population and industrial growth would offset the improvements being made.
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The study also found that female investors tended to be less optimistic than men.
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However, the picture is less optimistic when the figures are looked at a little more closely.
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As yet nobody knows, but I am no less optimistic now than I was in those heady days at Treasury.
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Specialists on Indochina were considerably less optimistic during the early days of the Truman administration.
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Some predicted modest increases, but others were less optimistic .
more
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Labour partisans were consistently very much more optimistic than Conservatives about the Labour Party's chances of victory.
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Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations.
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The rising generation of students were more optimistic about the future and did not carry the emotional burdens of the Cultural Revolution.
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School-to-work can engage young people in career planning and make them more optimistic about the future.
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A more optimistic note on house prices has been struck by big builders Wimpey.
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The builders might have done even better last year had buyers been more optimistic .
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If he had been admitted sooner, I should have been more optimistic .
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State officials are much more optimistic about the prospects for successfully tracking recipients.
most
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Even student teachers, who might reasonably be expected to be the least jaundiced and most optimistic informants, aren't happy.
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So far, sales are beating even the most optimistic analysts' projections.
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This is the most optimistic view of the future.
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But even the most optimistic experts are not overly optimistic.
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The most optimistic forecast severely reduced activity in residential property; others expected static house sales until the end of the year.
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Even the most optimistic specialists predicted moderate disruptions: Some cities would certainly lose power.
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This sector was the most optimistic about the near-term outlook, expecting much stronger sales in April.
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Under the most optimistic scenarios, it will take 20 years to dispose of the weapons currently viewed as excess.
over
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Certainly a further ten flying within the next two years is not an over optimistic estimate.
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This has proved to be over optimistic as Haymarket was forced to withdraw from the purchase after a key investor pulled out.
overly
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But this must be a cautious and overly optimistic conclusion.
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And the media bought the overly optimistic pronouncements without questions.
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This account of science is indeed overly optimistic but at the same time limited.
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As it turns out, some of these dreams were overly optimistic .
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But even the most optimistic experts are not overly optimistic.
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Shugart was sued by Lerach the first time for supposedly expressing overly optimistic views to shareholders.
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Given that the quarterback will be 41 at the time, that prediction seems overly optimistic .
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Others said that that scenario might be overly optimistic .
so
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I did not feel so optimistic .
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Forty-six-year-old Sandy Koicuba is not so optimistic .
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But not all of us feel so optimistic about the prospect of aloneness.
too
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Others qualified to judge have however found this re-reading too optimistic .
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He complained bitterly after being surprised by Pat Buchanan in an early primary about a pollster whose predictions had been too optimistic .
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But don't be too optimistic and don't imagine that your advice to your daughter will be acceptable.
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That was a little too optimistic , it turned out.
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Even this may be too optimistic .
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But do not be too optimistic , ever.
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With the president in his present mood it is probably too optimistic to expect any improvement until after next year's election.
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They hope to close the deal by year-end, but that may be too optimistic .
very
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In this case, the construction timetable proved wrong, as did very optimistic forecasts concerning the rates of inflation and interest.
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No one except Guks could have been very optimistic .
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It was a very optimistic year for me.
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In a normal situation, I would be very optimistic .
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I was not very optimistic about the submarine and neither was Eric.
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I am very optimistic and excited.
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It was very mild, though, and times were really very good and very optimistic .
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Boeing set very optimistic performance goals for the Corinth facility when it was established.
wildly
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This is generally held to be wildly optimistic , and in some quarters, an impossible timescale.
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The figures are wildly optimistic , and could only have been extrapolated from a short trial of about 10 operations.
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If this figure proves wildly optimistic , Bill Clinton will either have to propose more cuts or spend more money.
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Recent surveys show previous estimates of whale numbers to be wildly optimistic .
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Critics argued that these estimates were wildly optimistic or that the original figures were far too low.
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The figures were wildly optimistic , although the real events were dramatic enough in themselves.
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For another, it assumed a stability in the capitalist system which, then and since, seemed wildly optimistic .
■ NOUN
forecast
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In this case, the construction timetable proved wrong, as did very optimistic forecasts concerning the rates of inflation and interest.
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The most optimistic forecast severely reduced activity in residential property; others expected static house sales until the end of the year.
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The results were wildly ahead of the Democrats' most optimistic forecasts .
mood
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And Dexter tried to calm his faint resentment against her for casting a shadow over his optimistic mood .
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The stock market reflected the more optimistic mood , with the FTSE-100 index closing up 18.2 at 2,400.9.
note
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Others, even during the 1950s, adopted a more optimistic note .
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The film ends on an optimistic note .
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Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them.
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Carolyn Henderson signs off her diary on an optimistic note for his future.
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A more optimistic note on house prices has been struck by big builders Wimpey.
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The decade could hardly have ended on a more optimistic note .
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Maurice Paterson concluded on an optimistic note with references to the many new faces at the sales support conference.
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But one of the region's major employers Rover is beginning to sound an optimistic note .
outlook
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That's the optimistic outlook of Bordon businessman Philip Voice, who says he's never had it so good.
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These facts account for a more optimistic outlook of potential supply given in the 1981 report.
view
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While this is an optimistic view the necessary conditions of teaching and length of time are not often available.
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Shugart was sued by Lerach the first time for supposedly expressing overly optimistic views to shareholders.
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The formula of the bookstall blockbuster is only too persuasive, offering an optimistic view of social dangers and confusions.
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Few anthropologists share this optimistic view and I certainly do not believe in witchcraft.
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This is the most optimistic view of the future.
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Theirs is an essentially optimistic view of human nature, one which stresses cooperation, fraternity, egalitarianism.
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Essentially this was based on optimistic views about social progress and economic growth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(make) encouraging/optimistic etc noises (about sth)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Although his lawyers were optimistic , they couldn't be sure about the final outcome of the trial.
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an optimistic economic forecast
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Are you still optimistic that the climbers can be rescued?
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I'm pretty optimistic about our chances of winning here today.
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I am very optimistic about the future of our company.
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In spite of all her problems she manages to remain optimistic .
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The company was overly optimistic in its sale projections.
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The Democrats went into this election in an optimistic mood.
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The patient is still in a critical condition but doctors say they are cautiously optimistic that he will make a full recovery.
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We are cautiously optimistic that the trade deal will go through.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But am I optimistic that things will change?
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But I feel even more optimistic about the future of our world now than I did then.
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Generation X, best known for its pierced bodies and jaded outlook, is more optimistic about Wall Street than previous generations.
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He may be judged excessively optimistic , however, if not utterly desperate, in seeking the votes of leading opposition politicians.
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I got optimistic about making music again through my friends down there, like Nic.
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The builders might have done even better last year had buyers been more optimistic .