optimistic
"I'm looking at it optimistically," he said.
She spoke optimistically of the future.
You have to look at these things optimistically.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hoping and hopefulness
appealingly
beyond someone's expectations
boosterish
boosterism
bright spot
fancy
hope springs eternalidiom
hopeful
hopefully
hopefulness
ill
it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom
over-optimistic
over-optimistically
pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom
pious
pipe dream
please Godidiom
positively
wing

Examples of optimistically

optimistically
Dissonance spreads through the harmony, though the strings push on optimistically, the piano decorating until it picks up the reel itself - wonderfully catchy writing, this.
We are still optimistically en route to achieving that goal.
I trust, perhaps too optimistically, that any attempt to develop a gendered archaeology would focus on the former rather than the latter.
As it was assumed (though never proved) that investment must increase output, investment funds were poured out, at first optimistically, then mediated through structural adjustment.
Large values of r correspond to small step-size changes, which force the algorithm to carefully examine nearby points instead of optimistically forging ahead.
Although some emigrants optimistically planned to return, few probably did so.
The global village is optimistically as well as pessimistically seen a kind of justifying framework - especially useful for organising a life within technological globality.
I mean it's very hard to interpret that optimistically.
However, his successor did not produce those important changes and reforms that so many had optimistically expected.
More optimistically, we posit that an important and needed "virtuous cycle" is beginning to take shape with regard to mental disorder and its stigmatization.
This is claimed, perhaps rather optimistically, to obviate the need for prior knowledge of the field.
The authors conclude by reflecting, quite optimistically, on the policy and practice context within which future strategies for empowerment are likely to proceed.
If backed by rotation of office and restrictions upon property in land, this would, he optimistically believed, prevent the aristocracy from using their position in self-interested ways.
Researchers have been curious about this group since it was described in our 1996 paper, speculating optimistically that recoveries might be children who experienced some strong protective factor(s).
He also provocatively calls for urban history museums to participate in debates about politically-sensitive contemporary urban issues, optimistically claiming that herein lies the potential for urban regeneration.
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