| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| HOPEFULNESS | Optimism | |
| HOPE | Optimism | |
| ROSINESS | Optimism; flush | |
| MORALE | Spirit of optimism | |
| STARRYEYED | Full of unsophisticated optimism | |
| UTOPIANISM | The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism. | |
| OPTIMISTIC | Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best. | |
| PESSIMISM | The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism. | |