Synonyms of optimist

optimist

noun

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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dreamer
• romantic
• idealist
• idealizer
• Pollyanna
• romanticist
• sentimentalist
• idealogue
• Micawber
• visionary
• Don Quixote
• ideologue
• daydreamer
• utopian
• emotionalist
• fantast
• perfectionist
• theorist
• thinker
• reformer
• do-gooder
• fantasizer
• woolgatherer
• doctrinaire

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pessimist
• cynic
• defeatist
• realist
• empiricist
• pragmatist
• empiric
• hardnose

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of optimist

Peled is an optimist and a dreamer, qualities needed around here as much as his virtuosity. —Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 19 Nov. 2024

As the stock market rose, the bond market fell As a New York Times writer noted the other day, stock investors are optimists, while bond investors are pessimists. —Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2024

An oncologist who, in the face of this much evidence, shrugged and proposed watchful waiting as the best therapy would not be an optimist. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024

But for now, with inflation nearing the Fed’s 2% target and the job market still notching strong gains, the optimists seem to be having a moment. —Bryan Mena, CNN, 5 Oct. 2024