"optimist" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɑptɪmɪst/ [General-American], /ˈɒptɪmɪst/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-optimist.wav Forms: optimists [plural]
Etymology: From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|optimiste}} French optimiste, {{der|en|la|optimus|t=best}} Latin optimus (“best”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} optimist (plural optimists)
  1. a person who expects a favourable outcome Categories (topical): People, Watercraft Translations (a person who expects a favourable outcome): مُتَفَائِل (mutafāʔil) (Arabic), լավատես (lavates) (Armenian), nikbin (Azerbaijani), nikbin adam (Azerbaijani), optimista [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), optimista [masculine] (Czech), optimist [masculine] (Dutch), optimisto (Esperanto), optimisti (Finnish), optimiste [feminine, masculine] (French), optimista [feminine, masculine] (Galician), Optimist [masculine] (German), Optimistin [feminine] (German), αισιόδοξος (aisiódoxos) (Greek), אופטימי (optími) [masculine] (Hebrew), אופטימיסט (optimíst) [masculine] (Hebrew), optimista (Hungarian), optimisto (Ido), 楽観主義者 (rakkan-shugisha) (alt: らっかんしゅぎしゃ) (Japanese), optimists [masculine] (Latvian), optimistas [masculine] (Lithuanian), kiri mariu (Maori), आशावादी (āśāvādī) [feminine, masculine] (Marathi), optimist [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), optimist [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), optymista [masculine] (Polish), optymistka [feminine] (Polish), otimista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), optimist [masculine] (Romanian), optimistă [feminine] (Romanian), оптими́ст (optimíst) [masculine] (Russian), оптими́стка (optimístka) [feminine] (Russian), оптѝмист [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), optìmist [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), optimista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), optimist [common-gender] (Swedish), optimist (Turkish), iyimser (Turkish), nikbin [archaic] (Turkish), оптиміст (optymist) [masculine] (Ukrainian), frediman [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hifrediman [masculine] (Volapük), jifrediman [feminine] (Volapük) Translations (a small centre-board sailing dinghy): optimist [masculine] (Dutch), optimistijolla (Finnish), אופטימיסט (optimíst) [masculine] (Hebrew), Optimist [masculine] (Norwegian), optimistjolle [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), optimistjolle [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), optimistjolle [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. a believer in optimism Translations (a believer in optimism): լավատես (lavates) (Armenian), optimista [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), optimist [masculine] (Dutch), optimiste [feminine, masculine] (French), Optimist [masculine] (German), Optimistin [feminine] (German), אופטימי (optími) [masculine] (Hebrew), אופטימיסט (optimíst) [masculine] (Hebrew), 楽観主義者 (rakkan-shugisha) (alt: らっかんしゅぎしゃ) (Japanese), optimist [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), optimist [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), otimista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), оптими́ст (optimíst) [masculine] (Russian), оптими́стка (optimístka) [feminine] (Russian), оптѝмист [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), optìmist [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), optimist [common-gender] (Swedish), optimist (Turkish), iyimser (Turkish), frediman [feminine, masculine] (Volapük), hifrediman [masculine] (Volapük), jifrediman [feminine] (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-optimist-en-noun-1FBakXm8 Disambiguation of 'a believer in optimism': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: optimistic, techno-optimist Related terms: optimism, optimal

Inflected forms

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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Optimistin"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "optími",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אופטימי"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "optimíst",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אופטימיסט"
    },
    {
      "alt": "らっかんしゅぎしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rakkan-shugisha",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "word": "楽観主義者"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "otimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "optimíst",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оптими́ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "optimístka",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "оптими́стка"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "оптѝмист"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "optìmist"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "word": "optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "word": "iyimser"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "frediman"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hifrediman"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "a believer in optimism",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jifrediman"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "word": "optimistijolla"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "optimíst",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אופטימיסט"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Optimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "optimistjolle"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "optimistjolle"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a small centre-board sailing dinghy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "optimistjolle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "optimist"
}

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