Optimist

Definitions

1. A person who expects a favourable outcome.
2. A small centreboard sailing dinghy designed to train and introduce young children into sailing.
3. A believer in optimism.

Equivalents

Examples

“We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.”

“People often call⟳ me an optimist, because I show⟳ them the enormous progress⟳ they didn't know⟳ about. That makes me angry. I'm not an optimist. That makes me sound⟳ naive. I'm a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason⟳, nor fears without reason⟳, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see⟳ all this progress⟳, and it fills me with conviction and hope⟳ that further progress⟳ is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;”

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