optimist

See also: Optimist

English

Etymology

From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒptɪmɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

optimist (plural optimists)

1. a person who expects a favourable outcome
2. a believer in optimism

Antonyms

• pessimist

Derived terms

• optimistic
• techno-optimist

Related terms

• optimism
• optimal

Translations

a person who expects a favourable outcome

• Arabic: مُتَفَائِل (mutafāʔil)
• Armenian: լավատես (hy) (lavates)
• Azerbaijani: nikbin, nikbin adam
• Catalan: optimista (ca) m or f
• Czech: optimista (cs) m
• Dutch: optimist (nl) m
• Esperanto: optimisto
• Finnish: optimisti (fi)
• French: optimiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: optimista m or f
• German: Optimist (de) m, Optimistin (de) f
• Greek: αισιόδοξος (el) (aisiódoxos)
• Hebrew: אופטימי (he) m (optími), אופטימיסט m (optimíst)
• Hungarian: optimista (hu)
• Ido: optimisto (io)
• Japanese: 楽観主義者 (らっかんしゅぎしゃ, rakkan-shugisha)
• Latvian: optimists m
• Lithuanian: optimistas m
• Maori: kiri mariu
• Marathi: आशावादी m or f (āśāvādī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: optimist m

  Nynorsk: optimist m

• Polish: optymista (pl) m, optymistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: otimista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: optimist (ro) m, optimistă (ro) f
• Russian: оптими́ст (ru) m (optimíst), оптими́стка (ru) f (optimístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оптѝмист m

  Roman: optìmist (sh) m

• Spanish: optimista (es) m or f
• Swedish: optimist (sv) c
• Turkish: optimist (tr), iyimser (tr), nikbin (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: оптиміст m (optymist)
• Volapük: (♂♀) frediman (vo), (♂) hifrediman, (♀) jifrediman

a believer in optimism

• Armenian: լավատես (hy) (lavates)
• Catalan: optimista (ca) m or f
• Dutch: optimist (nl) m
• French: optimiste (fr) m or f
• German: Optimist (de) m, Optimistin (de) f
• Hebrew: אופטימי (he) m (optími), אופטימיסט m (optimíst)
• Japanese: 楽観主義者 (らっかんしゅぎしゃ, rakkan-shugisha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: optimist m

  Nynorsk: optimist m

• Portuguese: otimista (pt) m or f
• Russian: оптими́ст (ru) m (optimíst), оптими́стка (ru) f (optimístka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: оптѝмист m

  Roman: optìmist (sh) m

• Swedish: optimist (sv) c
• Turkish: optimist (tr), iyimser (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) frediman (vo), (♂) hifrediman, (♀) jifrediman

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• Dutch: optimist (nl) m
• Finnish: optimistijolla (fi)
• Hebrew: אופטימיסט m (optimíst)
• Norwegian: Optimist m

  Bokmål: optimistjolle m or f

  Nynorsk: optimistjolle f

• Swedish: optimistjolle c

Danish

Noun

optimist c (singular definite optimisten, plural indefinite optimister)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Declension

Declension of optimist

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	optimist	optimisten	optimister	optimisterne
genitive	optimists	optimistens	optimisters	optimisternes

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French optimiste, from Latin optimus +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɔp.tiˈmɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: op‧ti‧mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

optimist m (plural optimisten, diminutive optimistje n, feminine optimiste)

1. optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• optimiste
• optimistisch

Related terms

• optimisme

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimister, definite plural optimistene)

1. an optimist (a person who expects a favourable outcome, or a believer in optimism)

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• tidsoptimist

Related terms

• optimisme

References

• “optimist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “optimist” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimistar, definite plural optimistane)

1. an optimist (as above)

   Antonym: pessimist

Derived terms

• tidsoptimist

Related terms

• optimisme

References

• “optimist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French optimiste. By surface analysis, optim +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op.tiˈmist/

• Audio:

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Adjective

optimist m or n (feminine singular optimistă, masculine plural optimiști, feminine and neuter plural optimiste)

1. optimistic

Declension

Declension of optimist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	optimist		optimistă	optimiști	optimiste
	definite	optimistul		optimista	optimiștii	optimistele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	optimist		optimiste	optimiști	optimiste
	definite	optimistului		optimistei	optimiștilor	optimistilor

Noun

optimist m (plural optimiști, feminine equivalent optimistă)

1. optimist

Declension

Declension of optimist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) optimist	optimistul	(niște) optimiști	optimiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) optimist	optimistului	(unor) optimiști	optimiștilor
vocative	optimistule		optimiștilor

Swedish

Noun

optimist c

1. an optimist

   Antonym: pessimist

Declension

Declension of optimist
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	optimist	optimisten	optimister	optimisterna
Genitive	optimists	optimistens	optimisters	optimisternas

Related terms

• optimism
• optimistisk

See also

• optimistjolle

References

• optimist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• optimist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)