Micawberesque

comparative more Micawberesque · superlative most Micawberesque

1. Upbeat and optimistic in the face of seemingly hopeless circumstances.

   No one was more Micawberesque than Candide.

   2009, Ralph Keyes, I Love It When You Talk Retro

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   It would be merely feckless to frame American choices about China on the Micawberesque hope that something will turn up, or that China will turn down.

   2013, Hugh White, The China Choice: Why We Should Share Power, page 153

   Within the Murdstone and Grinby period, for all its miseries, David on occasion shows glimpses of a Micawberesque sprightliness - notably when he goes to order himself a celebratory glass of the best ale: '...just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head to it'.

   2016, Michael Irwin, Picturing: Description and Illusion in the Nineteenth Century Novel

   Synonyms: Micawberish, Micawber-like, Micawberly