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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person disposed to take a favorable view of things [ant: pessimist]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Optimist (Club) Date: 1911 a member of a major international service club

Merriam Webster's

noun see optimism

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Optimist Op"ti*mist, n. [Cf. F. optimiste.] 1. (Metaph.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best. 2. One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(optimists) An optimist is someone who is hopeful about the future. Optimists reckon house prices will move up with inflation this year. ? pessimist N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast, dreamer, hopeful, hoper, idealist, irrepressible optimist, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, positivist, ray of sunshine, utopian