noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
eternal optimist (= she always expects that good things will happen )
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She’s an eternal optimist .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Optimists still believe we can resolve the problem without going to war.
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You have to be an optimist to be in an occupation such as farming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Stirling, the incurable optimist , was already making new plans.
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Diehard optimists, like Mr Pynzenyk, say that hyperinflation and economic collapse will eventually force the country to its senses.
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He had clean-cut, perfect features, an absolutely even gaze, and the erect, confident air of a nineteenth-century optimist .
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He is extremely serious, speaks slowly-almost grinding to a complete halt at times-and is not exactly the happy optimist .
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His trouble, Hicks thought, was that he was too much of an optimist , like all hustlers.
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Most entrepreneurs tend to be optimists.
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The perennial optimists would say that this is because of consumer demand.