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Definition of Overoptimistic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overoptimistic
Literary usage of Overoptimistic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 50 Ways Farmers Can Protect Their Groundwater by Michael C. Hirschi, F. William Simmons, Doug Peterson, Ed Giles (1998)
"Some studies show that farmers do tend to be overoptimistic about yield goals.
According to a four-year survey of 158 farmers in Nebraska, only 10 percent ..."
2. Capital (1888)
"... in the first quarter of the current year, it might prove to be overoptimistic
to aim at a 7 per cent or 8 per cent growth rate for the year as a whole. ..."
3. The Fractured Continent: Latin America in Close-Up by Willard Leon Beaulac (1980)
"It took me several weeks to disabuse President Frondizi of the overoptimistic
impression he had obtained at the meeting—a melancholy commentary on the ..."
4. Sea-Changes: American Foreign Policy in a World Transformed by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos (1990)
"... share suggests that much recent discussion of economic policy coordination
has been historically illiterate and, in consequence, grossly overoptimistic. ..."
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