as in dreamer
a person who usually expects good things to happen
You have to be a bit of an optimist to start a business. Somehow he remained an optimist despite all that had happened to him.
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Recent Examples of optimist
But even to the cockeyed optimist, did six sacks feel plausible Sunday night?
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
An optimist might say this was a wake-up call.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Their mini-quests provide a bit of decent action here and there, as well as plenty of principled banter between a blinkered optimist (Lucy) and jaded doomsayer (Ghoul).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
But Hope Studios founder Fredrik Wikström Nicastro remains an optimist.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
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Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 12 Jan. 2026
An optimist might say this was a wake-up call.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Their mini-quests provide a bit of decent action here and there, as well as plenty of principled banter between a blinkered optimist (Lucy) and jaded doomsayer (Ghoul).
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
But Hope Studios founder Fredrik Wikström Nicastro remains an optimist.
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for optimist
dreamer
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But today there’s something refreshingly unusual about electronic music so unabashedly idealistic, something that declines to submit to reality and instead goes searching for some far-off nirvana, finding connections to other dreamers on the way.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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Their journeys to the Olympics are more than anything immigrant stories, the odysseys of two families of dreamers who settled in the South Bay, Chloe Kim’s family in Torrance, Bea Kim’s on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Optimist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/optimist. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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