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- English Word Optimistic Definition Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
- English Word Optimistic Definition Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
- English Word Optimity Definition The state of being best.
- English Word Option Definition The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
- English Word Option Definition The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
- English Word Option Definition A wishing; a wish.
- English Word Option Definition A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.
- English Word Option Definition A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
- English Word Optional Definition Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay.
- English Word Optional Definition See Elective, n.
- English Word Optionally Definition In an optional manner.
- English Word Optocoele Definition Alt. of Optocoelia
- English Word Optocoelia Definition The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals.
- English Word Optogram Definition An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.
- English Word Optography Definition The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual.
- English Word Optometer Definition An instrument for measuring the distance of distinct vision, mainly for the selection of eveglasses.
- English Word Opulence Definition Wealth; riches; affluence.
- English Word Opulency Definition See Opulence.
- English Word Opulent Definition Having a large estate or property; wealthy; rich; affluent; as, an opulent city; an opulent citizen.
- English Word Opuntia Definition A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig.