| 词汇 | over-optimistic |
| 释义 | over-optimistic adjective (alsooveroptimistic)uk /ˌəʊ.vər.ɒp.tɪˈmɪs.tɪk/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚ.ɑːp.təˈmɪs.t̬ɪk/ too full of hope or believing too much that good things will happen in the future : People are over-optimistic about their retirement, and that's dangerous. The event made a large loss after overoptimistic forecasts of visitor numbers and entry prices that were too high. We have learned that we were a little over-optimistic in our projections. Managers had made wildly overoptimistic assumptions about the number of visitors. It was felt that both plans were based on overoptimistic sales predictions. 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-optimism over-optimistically pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom pious pipe dream please Godidiom positively wing over-optimistic | Business Englishover-optimistic adjective (alsooveroptimistic)ukus too hopeful, or too ready to believe that good things will happen in the future: He fears that analysts are being over-optimistic about future company earnings. Planning for the project was grossly inadequate and overoptimistic, particularly as regards staffing. Examples of over-optimisticover-optimistic Instead, it takes for granted that textbook policies will achieve the highly ambitious goals consistent with an over-optimistic macroeconomic framework. However, this impression is over-simplistic and probably over-optimistic. They may help avoid the development of unrealistic fears or an over-optimistic outlook, thereby fostering the normal development of the child. However, survivors may be given an over-optimistic picture of the recovery process based on epidemiological evidence that relates to populations rather than individuals. The committee members producing the report take an over-optimistic view of the capacity of education to bring about such change. Initially there was over-optimistic hype and subsequent attention was inappropriately negative. In order to avoid over-optimistic error rates, a different independent part of the data is used for the evaluation of the error. The present findings suggest that this percentage surveillance is over-optimistic at the present time. It is over-optimistic to expect that my critique could make a radical difference to that fact. I fully admit that perhaps the original ceilings contemplated for this reserve were over-optimistic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But we are confident that the target is attainable, and our calculations, based on reasonable and not over-optimistic assumptions, show that this is so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I agree that in the past the railways have made over-optimistic forecasts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This was due to a perhaps over-optimistic estimate of the time when the debate would begin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now the original assessment was over-optimistic and the expected peace dividend has not appeared. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would be wildly over-optimistic if we expected it to do any more than roughly correct the balance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of over-optimistic These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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