Word Study
pollyanna
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
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
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