[Based on Dr. Pangloss, the optimistic tutor of Candide in the novel of the same name, by Voltaire]. ❚ Although overall holiday-sales forecasts range from Panglossian to Scroogesque, analysts agree that online shopping is booming. (Paul Andrews, Christmas Clicking, U.S. News & World Report, 12/15/2003.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for bullish, hopeful, idealistic or upbeat.
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