See Also: Pollyanna(dictionary)
Pollyanna(dictionary)

Pollyanna (iou)



Pollyanna noun. E20.
[The heroine of stories for children written by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), US author.]
A person able to find apparent cause for happiness in the most disastrous situations; a person who is unduly optimistic or achieves spurious happiness through self-delusion.
Pollyannaish adjective like (a) Pollyanna; naively optimistic; unrealistically happy: E20.
Pollyannaism noun behaviour or a statement characteristic of (a) Pollyanna M20.