optimistic

English

Etymology

optimist +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑptɪˈmɪstɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk

Adjective

optimistic (comparative more optimistic, superlative most optimistic)

1. Expecting the best in all possible ways.

   Antonym: pessimistic

   in an optimistic mood

   optimistic plans

   took an optimistic view

   • 1944 November and December, “What's in a Name?”, in Railway Magazine, page 333:

     Reference was made in the January-February issue to some of the optimistic railway titles of the past, such as the Manchester & Milford, and the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast, neither of which got anywhere near the extremities indicated in their titles during their independent existence.

2. (computing) Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.

   optimistic concurrency

   optimistic locking

Coordinate terms

• (expecting the best): enthusiasm, hopeful, positive, unabased, undeterred, confident

Derived terms

• optimistically
• overoptimistic, over-optimistic

Related terms

• optimal
• optimism
• optimist

Translations

expecting a good outcome

• Arabic: مُتَفَائِل (mutafāʔil)
• Armenian: լավատես (hy) (lavates), լավատեսական (hy) (lavatesakan)
• Belarusian: аптымісты́чны (aptymistýčny)
• Bulgarian: оптимисти́чен (bg) (optimistíčen)
• Catalan: optimista (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樂觀的／乐观的 (zh) (lèguān de)

• Czech: optimistický (cs)
• Danish: optimistisk
• Dutch: optimistisch (nl)
• Esperanto: optimisma
• Finnish: optimistinen (fi)
• French: optimiste (fr)
• Galician: optimista
• German: optimistisch (de)
• Greek: αισιόδοξος (el) (aisiódoxos)
• Hawaiian: hauʻoli
• Hebrew: אוֹפְּטִימִי (he)
• Hungarian: optimista (hu), derűlátó (hu)
• Italian: ottimista (it)
• Japanese: 楽観的 (ja) (らっかんてき, rakkanteki)
• Korean: 낙천적인 (nakcheonjeogin), 낙관적인 (nakgwanjeogin)
• Low German:

  German Low German: toversichtlich, optimist'sch

• Maori: ngākau rorotu
• Marathi: आशावादी (āśāvādī)
• Norwegian: optimistisk
• Persian: خوش بین (fa), خوش بینانه
• Polish: optymistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: otimista (pt)
• Romanian: optimist (ro)
• Russian: оптимисти́ческий (ru) (optimistíčeskij), оптимисти́чный (ru) (optimistíčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оптимистичан

  Roman: optimističan (sh)

• Slovak: optimistický
• Spanish: optimista (es)
• Swedish: optimistisk (sv)
• Thai: มองโลกในแง่ดี
• Turkish: iyimser (tr)
• Ukrainian: оптимісти́чний (optymistýčnyj)
• Volapük: fredimik (vo)
• Yiddish: אָפּטימיסטיש (optimistish)

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: optimistinen (fi)
• Portuguese: otimista (pt)