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Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Pollyanna, heroine of the novel Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter died 1920 American fiction writer Date: 1921 a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything • Pollyanna adjective • Pollyannaish also Pollyannish adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a cheerful optimist; an excessively cheerful person. Derivatives: Pollyannaish adj. Pollyannaism n. Etymology: character in a novel (1913) by E. Porter

Moby Thesaurus

Leibnizian optimist, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast, daydreamer, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, optimist, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, ray of sunshine, utopian, wishful thinker