POLLYANNAS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

Pollyannas

noun

plural of Pollyanna

as in optimists

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Noun

Still, optimists seem to be ruling the market, said Hendricks, so AI companies’ valuations are likely to keep inflating to unprecedented levels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Other studies have found that people with a positive mindset are 31% more productive and that optimists outsell their pessimistic peers by 37%.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of optimists

Noun

Its officials view questions of morality as a costly sideshow, the remit of woolly-minded idealists who do not understand how the world works.

— David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026
Witty, bitter, flamboyant, and emotionally grounded, the dialogue swings, delightfully, between intimate exchanges and grandiloquent soliloquies, capturing the vulnerability of idealists in the face of evil.

— Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of idealists

Noun

Kaycee, Trần Doãn Hoàng and Hữu Châu head the cast of the film about a pair of young dreamers who chase music from Hội An and Saigon to Busan and New York.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2026
Harbach’s cast of strivers and dreamers included dazzling baseball shortstop Henry Skrimshander, his mentor Mike Schwartz, and Pella Affenlight, who made up a love triangle.

— Malcolm Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of dreamers

Noun

The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of utopians

Noun

The upcoming Super Bowl will be on Valentine’s Day, meaning this is the one time that the romantics in your life will stop watching men crashing into each other.

— Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026
Sorry to all the hopeless romantics, but the answer is TAP-DANCED.

— Sean McGowan, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2026

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