Panglossian (adj)
pan-gloss-ee-an
To be always optimistic regardless of the facts.
From the name of the tutor and philosopher in Voltaire’s Candide (1759)
Example sentences
“He’s such a pangloss, he’d see he positive in anything.”
“Her panglossian thinking always got us through.”
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