pollyanna

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

Pol=ly=an=na

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

pollyanna, n. a cheerful optimist; an excessively cheerful person.

Derivative

Pollyannaish adj. Pollyannaism n.

Etymology

character in a novel (1913) by E. Porter

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THESAURUS

pollyanna

Leibnizian optimist, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast, daydreamer, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, optimist, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, ray of sunshine, utopian, wishful thinker