0 someone who always believes that good things will happen:
She's a born optimist (= someone who has always been optimistic).
1 someone who feels that good things are more likely to happen than bad things:
The story is told that there are two personalities among psychologists, optimists and pessimists, who see the glass as half full or half empty, respectively.
Not much comfort here for the optimists one would have thought, nor is there much convincing counter-scholarship saying anything different.
Among the authors are both optimists and pessimists.
Some people are optimists, whereas others are pessimists.
At least, that is what this optimist thinks!
I am not (she said) an optimist but a meliorist.
The optimists might argue that the invention has now been made.
Although the above remarks may appeal to pessimists, this volume will offer further hope to optimists.
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