over-sanguine

This is well documented in the business world, with its over-optimistic growth plans, and also in military leadership, where it is clear that generals are routinely over-sanguine about their likely progress and under-reflective about the complexities.

Grasping the Nettle of Personality, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

He lodged with Drake, and found him not over-sanguine as to the success of the voyage.

Westward Ho! 2007

I cannot but say that as the latter is a sensible and judicious man, and not rash, opinionative, or over-sanguine, I have great hopes (little as I think of quacks and nostrum-mongers in general) that he will do him good, if his case will admit of it.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Fox told him, “Be not over-sanguine: I believe when you next return to England you will be a prisoner on parole.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Fox told him, “Be not over-sanguine: I believe when you next return to England you will be a prisoner on parole.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

But anon, with a thrust in each direction, at the over-sanguine English friends of the Revolution and at its unreasonable foes, he sings a glorious pæan to ` dear Britain, 'his ` native

Coleridge's Conversation Poems 1960

From the first it was obvious that this was an over-sanguine estimate, unless the fleet was to be made up entirely of old and weak ships.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

I rejected the simile, however, as over-sanguine; we had been too long abandoned on our Ararat.

The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

Bets had been made that Evarts would get 50, and some over-sanguine ones fixed it at 60.

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

To the over-sanguine and the over-timid this seemed to foreshadow the rapid passage of Home Rule, and, bad as are the terms of the Act of

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various