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Panglossian
Pan·gloss·i·an [ pan glóssee ən ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
unrealistically optimistic: excessively and inappropriately optimistic ( literary )

[Mid-19th century. After Dr. Pangloss, philosopher in Voltaire's Candide (1759)]
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