All 4 Uses
optimistic
in
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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- I could sign up for a class at the gun range, the optimistic part of me would think.†
p. 271.4 *
- There followed a great deal of paranoid speculation about Miss Avocet's tragic ordeal and why hollows would want to kidnap ymbrynes, with theories ranging from the bizarre (to create the biggest time loop in history, large enough to swallow the whole planet) to the ridiculously optimistic (to keep the hollows company; being a horrible soul-eating monster can get pretty lonely).†
p. 273.4
- I scrambled on my hands and knees, because even standing would've cost time I didn't have to waste, and I was halfway to the end and feeling cautiously optimistic about my chances for survival when suddenly I could crawl no more.†
p. 306.4
- I wasn't optimistic enough to think he'd run out of bullets, though.†
p. 319.1
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)