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(1) - { Panglossian } : ( ✔ )Innoffensive?
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[Adjective] | "Pan*gloss*ian" | \ pan-ˈglä-sē-ən \
1: marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds : excessively optimistic
Origin: 1831 ;
Pangloss, optimistic tutor in Voltaire's Candide (1759);
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# 1 - { panglossian:692391 }
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[ "panglossian" ]
1: Blindly optimistic, naively so.
* e.g., ... That poor sod BazzA is acting somewhat panglossian about that lovely young lass...
# 2 - { pessimistic panglossian:3723518 }
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[ "pessimistic panglossian" ]
1: one who thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and screwed up as it may be, can't get any better.
* e.g., ... She didn't bother to get out of bed anymore, her pessimistic panglossian perspective made life seem pointless.
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[ "Panglossian" ]
1: obnoxiously happy all the time. even worse than the most optimistic of Pollyannas
* e.g., ... Kyle always had a very panglossian view of life, until the day he found out his middle name was Pollyanna!
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