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OPTIMIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person disposed to take a favorable view of things
Classified under:
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)
Derivation:
optimism (a general disposition to expect the best in all things)
optimism (the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well)
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