Sample Sentences for
optimistic
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    Maybe they're being optimistic designing their system.  (source)
    optimistic = expecting the best
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    We Hoosiers are excessively optimistic about summer.  (source)
    optimistic = full of expectation of the best
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    Phoebe whispered, "I am not too optimistic about the possibilities of this meal."  (source)
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    I don't want to hear your optimism about this land of possibility when I see no proof!  (source)
    optimism = expectation of good outcomes
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    It was late afternoon, gray and gleaming, but it was only dirty-colored light that was permitted entrance into the room. It was all the fabric of the curtains allowed. If you're optimistic, think of it as bronze.  (source)
    optimistic = with a tendency to interpret things in a positive way
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    Or I could leave it as an optimist and hope for the best.  (source)
    optimist = someone who expects the best
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    Optimistically: we won't be here that long.†  (source)
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    Forever the optimists, even when we're outnumbered and outgunned, we still tend to think we have a chance to make it out alive—and be home in time for dinner.†  (source)
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    But these optimisms did not sound so loud as the laughter of the audience at the funny-man's line, "Yes, by heckelum, I'm a smart fella."†  (source)
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    She had no illusions: old plans, if one could ever remember them, the plans that time had overtaken, tended to have a febrile and overoptimistic grip on events.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overoptimistic means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    I counseled everyone against overoptimism.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overoptimism means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    Spirits are improving, our superoptimists are triumphant, the van Daans are doing disappearing acts with the sugar, Bep's changed her hair, and Miep has a week off.†  (source)
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    My mom always said optimism was my best trait.  (source)
    optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
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