Etymograph

English

sloptimism

Blend of slop + optimism.

A blend of slop + optimism

Old English *slop

Middle English slop

English slop

Proto-Italic *dwenos ‘good’

Archaic Latin duenos

Old Latin duonus

Latin bonus ‘good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant’

French optimisme

English optimism

Today it means

noun Naive, unfounded, or overzealous optimism.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sloptimism”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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