Preposition: about

• prospect: Concerns over the strong pound have meant that export optimism about prospects for the year ahead has fallen heavily in every region.

Converse of object

• misplace: Dan Rookwood Thursday July 3, 2003 1pm update: Misplaced patriotic optimism?

• exude: The letters Rommel sent to Schmundt ( which the colonel undoubtedly showed to Hitler ) exuded optimism from every line.

• renew: Could you please renewed optimism more time in life.

• reflect: Ariès surveyed the gamut of childhood, finding it to be a largely happy age, perhaps reflecting postwar triumphal optimism.

• inspire: Ellingham Mill at low water The effects of change can inspire optimism.

Adjective modifier

• cautious: The results we review give grounds for cautious optimism.

• guarded: Marsh is good at mixing cynicism with guarded optimism.

• renewed: For instance say renewed optimism more allows you to.

• naive: All this must not, however, lead to a naive optimism.

• unrealistic: Zerzan's unrealistic optimism is merely the flipside of the pessimism that comes with defeat.

• boundless: On the other, there is a kind of boundless optimism.

Modifies a noun

• bias: For more on optimism bias see the Green Book.

• adjustment: Note, however, that allowance for risk is not a complete substitute for optimism bias adjustment.

• index: The UK optimism index continues to advance from its low in July last year.

• assumption: The outcome would be changed most significantly by the revised optimism bias assumptions we suggest.

Noun used with modifier

• naive: This isn't naïve optimism, it's God's promised future.

Preposition: of

• youth: With all the optimism of youth, they sang and danced to raise funds for the British Red Cross.

• will: There is a well-worn motto on the left; pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.