skeptimist

noun

skeptimist

noun

Etymology Blend of skeptic + optimist.

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."1996 March 24, Robert Rubino, “Questionable Support For New SF Ballpark”, in Santa Rosa Press Democrat:

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