skeptimist
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
skeptimist (plural skeptimists)
- One who is both skeptical and optimistic.
- 1996 March 24, Robert Rubino, “Questionable Support For New SF Ballpark”, in Santa Rosa Press Democrat:
- Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants. Call us "skeptimists."
Quotations edit
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:skeptimist.