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’
‘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 Panglossotherwise he'd win it every time.’
‘This is all part of a Pangloss view.’
Origin
Late 18th century from the name of the tutor and philosopher in Voltaire's Candide (1759).
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