noun
Meaning 1
A person who expects a favourable outcome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
optimist
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɒptɪmɪst/
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noun
Meaning 2
A believer in optimism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A small centreboard sailing dinghy designed to train and introduce young children into sailing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Oppy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a person disposed to take a favorable view of things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: pessimist
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: millenarian, millenarist, chiliast
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h1épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h1epi Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos ? Latin optimus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French optim(isme) ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French optimistebor. English optimist Borrowed from French optimiste.
Across languages
Translations
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُتَفَائِل (mutafāʔil) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Armenian: լավատես (lavates) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Azerbaijani: nikbin — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Azerbaijani: nikbin adam — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Catalan: optimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Chinese Mandarin: 樂天派 /乐天派 (lètiānpài) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Czech: optimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Dutch: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Esperanto: optimisto — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Finnish: optimisti — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- French: optimiste — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Galician: optimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Georgian: ოპტიმისტი (oṗṭimisṭi) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- German: Optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- German: Optimistin — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Greek: αισιόδοξος (aisiódoxos) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Hebrew: אופטימי (optími) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Hebrew: אופטימיסט (optimíst) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Hungarian: optimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Ido: optimisto — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Japanese: 楽観主義者 (rakkan-shugisha) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Latvian: optimists — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Lithuanian: optimistas — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Māori: kiri mariu — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Marathi: आशावादी (āśāvādī) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Norwegian Bokmål: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Norwegian Nynorsk: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Polish: optymista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Polish: optymistka — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Portuguese: otimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Romanian: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Romanian: optimistă — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Russian: оптими́ст (optimíst) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Russian: оптими́стка (optimístka) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Serbo-Croatian: оптѝмист — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Serbo-Croatian: optìmist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Spanish: optimista — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Swedish: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Turkish: optimist — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Turkish: iyimser — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Turkish: nikbin — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Ukrainian: оптиміст (optymist) — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Vietnamese: người lạc quan — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Volapük: frediman — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Volapük: hifrediman — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Volapük: jifrediman — a person who expects a favourable outcome
- Armenian: լավատես (lavates) — a believer in optimism
- Catalan: optimista — a believer in optimism
- Dutch: optimist — a believer in optimism
- French: optimiste — a believer in optimism
- German: Optimist — a believer in optimism
- German: Optimistin — a believer in optimism
- Hebrew: אופטימי (optími) — a believer in optimism
- Hebrew: אופטימיסט (optimíst) — a believer in optimism
- Japanese: 楽観主義者 (rakkan-shugisha) — a believer in optimism
- Norwegian Bokmål: optimist — a believer in optimism
- Norwegian Nynorsk: optimist — a believer in optimism
- Portuguese: otimista — a believer in optimism
- Russian: оптими́ст (optimíst) — a believer in optimism
- Russian: оптими́стка (optimístka) — a believer in optimism
- Serbo-Croatian: оптѝмист — a believer in optimism
- Serbo-Croatian: optìmist — a believer in optimism
- Swedish: optimist — a believer in optimism
- Turkish: optimist — a believer in optimism
- Turkish: iyimser — a believer in optimism
- Volapük: frediman — a believer in optimism
- Volapük: hifrediman — a believer in optimism
- Volapük: jifrediman — a believer in optimism
- Dutch: optimist — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Finnish: optimistijolla — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Hebrew: אופטימיסט (optimíst) — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Norwegian: Optimist — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Norwegian Bokmål: optimistjolle — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Norwegian Nynorsk: optimistjolle — a small centre-board sailing dinghy
- Swedish: optimistjolle — a small centre-board sailing dinghy