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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- He now appears highly optimistic about being able to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine soon to bring to an end the bloody conflict between the two countries `.
- Pakistan`s current approach, that a fractured international system one that has failed to implement UNSC resolutions on Kashmir for over seven decades will compel India to reverse course is, at best, too optimistic.
- However, it would be overly optimistic to consider this a rupture between the US and Israel.
- While optimistic, the judgement also cautions in detail against overreliance on AI, indicating that it was arrived at after serious and careful deliberation.
- However, the government is optimistic this time that Niftac will work because the civilian and military leadership are on the same page.
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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