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

Skeptical investors will come around to what optimists like him are creating. —Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

Research involving Belgian newspaper articles and experts shows that public commentators on the topic tend to fall into three buckets: optimists (largely tech entrepreneurs), skeptics (largely economists) , and pessimists (authors and journalists). —Nicky Dries, joost Luyckx, philip Rogiers, Harvard Business Review, 16 Sep. 2024

Read the full Taurus Daily Horoscope Gemini (May 21 - June 21) Embracing your inner optimist? —USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2024

An optimist is someone who believes that what will be, will be … postponed. —Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2024