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Definition
expecting the best; or focusing on the good part of things
- As Crake had once said, Jimmy was a romantic optimist.p. 346.4
- 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. 153.4
- 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
There are no more uses of "optimistic" in Oryx and Crake.
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