Micawber
noun
Mi·caw·ber mi-ˈkȯ-bər 
-ˈkä-
: one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune
Micawberish
mi-ˈkȯ-bə-rish
adjective -ˈkä-
Word History
Etymology
Wilkins Micawber, character in the novel David Copperfield (1849–50) by Charles Dickens
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
Micawber
noun
as in Pollyanna
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- Pollyanna
- optimist
- sentimentalist
- dreamer
- utopian
- idealist
- romantic
- romanticist
- visionary
- Don Quixote
- daydreamer
- ideologue
- emotionalist
- fantast
- idealizer
- idealogue
- woolgatherer
- fantasizer
- theorist
- perfectionist
- do-gooder
- thinker
- reformer
- doctrinaire
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- pessimist
- cynic
- defeatist
- realist
- empiricist
- pragmatist
- empiric
- hardnose
- open file
- open fire
- open fire on
- open flash
- open flow
- open for
- open for (someone)
- open for business
- open for discussion
- open for someone
- open form
- open fracture
- open frame
- open furrow
- open fuse
- open gait
- open gate
- open grain
- open harmony
- open hawse
- open hole
- open house
- open ice
- open interest
- open internal juncture