daydreamer

noun

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  1. dreamer
  2. optimist
  3. idealist
  4. romantic
Noun
  • The pitch was simple—for us, by us—and over time the gathering has ballooned into a magnet for all sorts of dreamers, many of whom also realize that there is power in the collective.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On this road, loneliness becomes the defining characteristic, separating dreamers from those who merely exist.
    Colby B. Jubenville, PhD, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dreamer
Noun
  • The optimist finds hope in the most despairing situation.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
  • But there was at least one optimist, or maybe someone who's just come to terms with the truth that's as cold as England can be this time of year.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of optimist
Noun
  • Whitehead has said that Elwood and Turner represent the two parts of him, the idealist (Elwood) and the cynic (Turner), whose intertwined perspectives inform his own view of race as a Black man making sense of contemporary America.
    K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The diary belonged to Lam Ping-yu, an ambitious and patriotic idealist who was born to a well-off Chinese family in Indonesia in 1911 and eagerly joined his home country’s navy.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of idealist
Noun
  • This attempt to coax a conventional romantic through line out of the madness doesn’t really work, partly because Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan have otherwise done a fine job of making clear how unconventional this whole situation was.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • However, the hopeless romantic in me is not one to say no to a wedding!
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of romantic
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