optimistic
Expecting the best in all possible ways.
Adjective
- Expecting the best in all possible ways.
- in an optimistic mood
- optimistic plans
- took an optimistic view
Antonyms: pessimistic
- Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.
- optimistic concurrency
- optimistic locking
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der. Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder. Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos ? Latin optimus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French optim(isme) ▲ Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istabor. French -iste French optimistebor. English optimist Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English optimistic From optimist + -ic.
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cyberoptimistic hyperoptimistic nonoptimistic optimistically optimistic concurrency overoptimistic over-optimistic skeptimistic superoptimistic ultraoptimistic unoptimistic