Skeptimist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who is both skeptical and optimistic.

    "Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants. Call us "skeptimists.""

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"Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants. Call us "skeptimists.""

Etymology

Blend of skeptic + optimist.

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