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A person views the situation optimistically or hopefully. For example, Betty was not upset by the last-minute change, since it gave her extra time-she always sees the glass as half full . The opposite-that is, the pessimistic view-is put as the glass is half empty. Also see bright side.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jannike	YAHN-ni-ke (Swedish)	Norwegian, Swedish, Danish
Antonietta	-	Italian
Halstein	-	Norwegian
Noella	-	French
Reina (1)	-	Spanish
Laura	LAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)	English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa