Crossword-Solution: OPTIMISM 8 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Optimism n. The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being
the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of
things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
Optimism n. A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed
to pessimism.

We have 36 clues for the answer “OPTIMISM”

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Inclination to see the glass half full 1 answer
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" outlook 1 answer
A belief that the best will occur 1 answer
Bright disposition 1 answer
Characteristic of a bull 1 answer
Dr. Pangloss's doctrine, in "Candide" 1 answer
Glass-half-full attitude 1 answer
Hopeful mood 1 answer
Hopefulness about the future 1 answer
"High Hopes" philosophy 1 answer
Pollyanna's forte 1 answer
Pollyanna's outlook 1 answer
Tendency to look on the bright side 1 answer
The search for the silver lining 1 answer
What cynics lack 1 answer
tendency to take the most hopeful view 1 answer
the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well 1 answer
High side 2 answers
"That's good thinking!" 2 answers
Great expectations 4 answers
A GENERAL DISPOSITION TO EXPECT THE BEST IN ALL THINGS 11 answers
good humour 16 answers
Good humor 16 answers
FLOW of spirits 24 answers
jauntiness 27 answers
capriciousness 41 answers
GOOD humor/humour 44 answers
anticipation 46 answers
hopefulness 47 answers
esprit 49 answers
Exultation 50 answers
chortle 54 answers
chuckle 55 answers
Gladness 60 answers
Witticism 69 answers
Frolic 77 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with OPTIMISM (5)

Furthermore, according to MICHELSON, there is general optimism that the copyright and fees issues impeding the delivery of full text on existing research and education networks soon will be resolved.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
She received his advice with great frigidity, looking hard at the floor and sighing, like a person well on her guard against an insidious optimism.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
But it was one thing to be a Catholic, and another to turn nun—on your hand! There was something lugubriously comical in the way Newman’s thoroughly contemporaneous optimism was confronted with this dusky old-world expedient.
The American Henry James 1994
This would have been fatuity if the optimism it expressed had not been much more a hope than a prejudice.
The Europeans Henry James 1994
Government officials have expressed guarded optimism for 1994, as the country struggles to achieve sustainable economic growth at a much-reduced standard of living.
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States Central Intelligence Agency 2008

Quotes with OPTIMISM (3)

Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet. To make all your friends feelthat there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the pastand pre…
Christian D. Larson Your Forces and How to Use Them
I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting f…
Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love
Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm, you were full of optimism for what it would be like in the field, and you couldn't wait to try it out. Except those first couple of nights out were usually awkward as you got used to it and it got used to you. Over time, the steel lost its brand-new gleam, and the hilt became stained, and maybe you n…
J.R. Ward Lover Unleashed
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 16 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).