Panglossian
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- adjective
- /pæŋˈɡlɔːsiən/
- Literature
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panglossiano
- Despite the clear evidence of problems, her Panglossian attitude remained unshaken.
- Panglossian view
Examples
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His Panglossian outlook led him to ignore the serious issues facing the community.
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Fogbow is a nest of lawyers, lovely folk, very knowledgeable; I respect them greatly, but they are people who have an insider's affection for the legal system and a Panglossian view of it.
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This Panglossian view just can't happen in modern America.
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But does American history really bear out this Panglossian perspective on the aftermath of crises, financial or otherwise?
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The Panglossian idea that humans should surrender to bad things because they are "God's will" is at the heart of Christianity and Islam.
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This is a Panglossian view—to put it mildly.
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That's common practice, and while it may not be technically correct, ignoring those things as our Panglossian apologists for current practice would do is pretty disingenuous.
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Also rarely invoked is the kind of literary allusion contained in the paper's full title: "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme."
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I would note that, contrary to the sacred Panglossian theology of the Democrats and those few that are even farther left than the current American Democrats, Russia in any form—Soviet, Commonwealth, or Federation—is neither a friend, friendly, nor non-hostile.
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The report's Panglossian conclusions failed to acknowledge the significant challenges ahead.
Synonyms
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4.0
Not having a sensible idea of what can be done in real life
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Expecting only very good results that are unlikely to happen
Being very hopeful even when things seem bad
Being too hopeful about things and not seeing clear problems
Antonyms
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6.5
Not trusting people to have good intentions and expecting them to act for themselves
Compounds
How Optimistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Panglossian comes from Dr. Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's book 'Candide' who always said 'all is for the best' even when things went very wrong. So to be Panglossian is to be unrealistically optimistic and to ignore real problems.