# optimist
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɑptɪmɪst/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɒptɪmɪst/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

optimist (plural optimists)
* A person who expects a favourable outcome.
** 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238: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 autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
** 2017, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think‎: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 serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.;
* A believer in optimism.

#### Antonyms

* pessimist

#### Derived terms

* optimistic
* techno-optimist

#### Related terms

* optimism
* optimal

#### Translations
## Danish
### Noun

optimist c (singular definite optimisten, plural indefinite optimister)
* optimist
    Antonym: pessimist

#### Declension
## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɔp.tiˈmɪst/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: op‧ti‧mist
* Rhymes: -ɪst

### Noun

optimist m (plural optimisten, diminutive optimistje n, feminine optimiste)
* optimist
    Antonym: pessimist

#### Derived terms

* optimiste
* optimistisch

#### Related terms

* optimisme

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

optimist m (definite singular optimisten, indefinite plural optimister, definite plural optimistene)
* 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)
* 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: /op.tiˈmist/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

#### Declension
### Noun

optimist m (plural optimiști, feminine equivalent optimistă)
* optimist

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

optimist c
* an optimist
    Antonym: pessimist

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | optimist | optimists |
| singular | definite | optimisten | optimistens |
| plural | indefinite | optimister | optimisters |
| plural | definite | optimisterna | optimisternas |

#### Related terms

* optimism
* optimistisk

#### See also

* optimistjolle

### References

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