Dictionaries › English

optimistic

Pronunciation: /ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/

The English word “optimistic” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Expecting the best in all possible ways.
  2. 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.

Etymology

From optimist + -ic.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “optimistic” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.