OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 20330

optimist

/ˈɑptɪmɪst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
optimista
A person who expects a favourable outcome.
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…
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 autoae…
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