noun

• A person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances.

  ‘as factories moved out of the US in the 1970s, the Panglosses of the day called it progress’

  More example sentences

  • ‘By the novel's end Pawkie, like a Scottish Pangloss, is announcing that reform is in the air and that the world is becoming better and better.’
  • ‘Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini portray us as modern-day Panglosses for expecting an orderly adjustment of global economic imbalances and sustained U.S. hegemony.’
  • ‘One needn't be a Pangloss to dismiss the notion that the world can ever get ‘better.’’
  • ‘The President is ineligible for a Pangloss—otherwise he'd win it every time.’
  • ‘This is all part of a Pangloss view.’