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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);

     [ "panglossian" ]

    1: Blindly optimistic, naively so.

      * e.g.,  ... That poor sod BazzA is acting somewhat panglossian about that lovely young lass... 

     [ "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. 

     [ "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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