optimistic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: op=ti=mis=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

optimistic, a. 

•  Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

optimistic

Leibnizian, agape, agog, all agog, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, awaiting, beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, buoyant, certain, cheerful, cheery, chiliastic, confident, couleur de rose, eager, elated, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, expectant, expecting, flushed, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gaping, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing, happy, high, hopeful, idealistic, in anticipation, in expectation, in good spirits, in high spirits, irrepressible, laughing, looking for, looking forward to, millenarian, millennialistic, not surprised, of good cheer, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, pleasant, positive, prepared, radiant, ready, riant, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, smiling, sparkling, sunny, sure, unsurprised, upbeat, utopian, waiting, waiting for, watching for, winsome