Synonyms of Pollyanna

Pollyanna 1 of 2

adjective

as in optimistic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• optimistic
• hopeful
• Pollyannaish
• Pollyannish
• rosy
• upbeat
• Panglossian
• promising
• likely
• rose-colored
• encouraging
• golden
• propitious
• auspicious
• heartening
• positive
• bright
• reassuring
• fair
• comforting
• favorable
• utopian
• romantic
• cheering
• cheerful
• cheery
• visionary
• idealist
• sunny
• good
• chipper

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pessimistic
• hopeless
• despairing
• defeatist
• cynical
• bearish
• fatalistic
• nihilistic
• downbeat
• unlikely
• desperate
• discouraging
• unpromising
• inauspicious
• nihilist
• disheartening

Pollyanna

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noun

as in optimist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• optimist
• Micawber
• idealist
• dreamer
• romantic
• Don Quixote
• romanticist
• sentimentalist
• idealogue
• visionary
• utopian
• ideologue
• daydreamer
• emotionalist
• idealizer
• fantast
• perfectionist
• do-gooder
• theorist
• reformer
• fantasizer
• woolgatherer
• thinker
• doctrinaire

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pessimist
• cynic
• defeatist
• realist
• empiricist
• pragmatist
• empiric
• hardnose