Vocabulary
Optimistic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
hopeful and confident about the future.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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US President Donald Trump`s flurry of posts on his social media platform on Friday made it seem as if the war was all but over.Yet it would perhaps be too optimistic to expect that this nightmare is over.
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Round two?
— 2026-04-20
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WHILE predictions about the fate of the US-Iran negotiations range from excessively optimistic to doomsday scenarios, there does appear to be some intention on both sides to meet again and try to give peace a chance.
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Sliver of hope
— 2026-04-15
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Regime change, he says, remains the `most optimistic` scenario, with the `resumption of the mass demonstrations that the regime bloodily stamped out in January ...
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Grave new world
— 2026-03-18
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The Next Generation report, however, finds they remain optimistic that things will improve and despite pressures, prefer to remain in the country rather than go abroad.
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Young and restless
— 2026-03-02
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This sudden regulatory warmth is part of a larger, rather optimistic initiative to `facilitate investors` in the pot-growing business.
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Pipe dreams?
— 2025-12-30
Synonyms
cheerful, cheery, positive, confident, hopeful, sanguine, bullish, buoyant, bright
Antonyms
pessimistic, negative, gloomy, ominous
Curator example
“the optimistic mood of the Sixties”
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