a person disposed to take a favorable view of things

One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; - opposed to pessimist.

One who looks on the bright side of things: opposite to pessimist.

One who holds that everything is ordered for the best.

Believer in optimism; one who takes cheerful views.

A believer in optimism; one who always hopes for the best.

One who holds that all events are ordered for the best.

He is something far more convincing, far more comforting, far more religiously significant than an optimist: he is a happy man. – Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton

He does not see things through the rosy spectacles of the modern optimist or the green- smoked spectacles of the pessimist; he sees it through the crystal glasses of his own innocence. – Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

" You're a nice, quiet, gentlemanly little optimist, and I like you, old fellow," retorted Cullen. – A Gentleman from Mississippi by Thomas A. Wise

The Optimist will tell you all about them. – When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

" There's nothing like being an optimist," Bradby said. – The Lost Valley by J. M. Walsh

At least admit you're scarcely an optimist. – Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister

I am not an easy- going optimist, as you know, and I don't see how what I have said can be true. – The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

Then Keredec was wrong, optimist as he was, since a will such as hers could save him she loved, even from his own acts. – The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

Jean, I'm afraid you're a chirping optimist. – Penny Plain by Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)

The optimist cannot resist meditating on the way out for our enslaved short story. – Definitions by Henry Seidel Canby

The friend who knew him best in Convention, and who had seen him in his darkest hours then and long ago, said this of him: " He was always an optimist." – John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Gwynn

Ah, she said, it is easy to be an optimist to- day. – By Right of Purchase by Harold Bindloss

And when you have the optimist and pessimist acutely opposed in a mixing group, they direct lively conversations at one another across the gulf of distance, even of time. – One of Our Conquerors, Complete by George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009