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optimistic
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Oryx and Crake
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- Despite their irritating qualities — among which lie counts their naive optimism, their open friendliness, their calmness, and their limited vocabularies — he feels protective towards them.†
p. 153.4optimism = a tendency to expect and see the best in all things
- How optimistic of them to have believed that any of the paperwork and storage disks might still have been of use to anyone.†
p. 236.9 *
- As Crake had once said, Jimmy was a romantic optimist.†
p. 346.4optimist = someone who expects the best; or who focuses on the good part of things
Definitions:
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(1)
(optimistic) expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)