optimistic

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁epsder.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi

Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos

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Latin optimus

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.

Latin -ismusbor.

French -isme

French optim(isme)

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Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Hellenic *-tās

Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)

Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.

Latin -istabor.

French -iste

French optimistebor.

English optimist

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

English optimistic

From optimist + -ic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Adjective

optimistic (comparative more optimistic, superlative most optimistic)

1. Expecting the best in all possible ways.

   Synonyms: upbeat, rosy

   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

• cyberoptimistic
• hyperoptimistic
• nonoptimistic
• optimistically
• optimistic concurrency
• overoptimistic, over-optimistic
• skeptimistic
• superoptimistic
• ultraoptimistic
• unoptimistic

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
• Georgian: ოპტიმისტური (oṗṭimisṭuri)
• German: optimistisch (de)
• Greek: αισιόδοξος (el) (aisiódoxos)
• Hawaiian: hauʻoli
• Hebrew: אוֹפְּטִימִי (he)
• Hindi: आशावादी (āśāvādī)
• 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

• Māori: 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

  Latin: optimističan (sh)

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

computing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

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