Word info

over-optimistic

Adjective

Meaning

over-optimistic (comparative more over-optimistic, superlative most over-optimistic)

alternative form of overoptimistic

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

He has a kindly nature, and is perhaps a little over-optimistic. Source: Internet

Karm Farrugia: “In a declining economy, it is to be expected that Government revenue goes down, especially when the budget itself was over-optimistic in the first place” Source: Internet

Rising expenditure and over-optimistic expectations of expansion into the American market caused a financial crisis in 1937, Sarah Street British National Cinema, London: Routledge, 2009, p. 12. after an all-time high of 192 films were released in 1936. Source: Internet

The intelligence assessment of Allied prospects was therefore over-optimistic. Source: Internet

We are still using the same assumptions today – we are not being over-optimistic or under-optimistic in our assumptions. Source: Internet

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