ˌpälēˈanə noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: after Pollyanna, heroine of the novel Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter died 1920 American fiction writer
: one having a disposition or nature characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything : an overly and often blindly optimistic person : an irritatingly cheerful person
the facts on inflation are sugarcoated by the Pollyannas — Atlantic
not such a Pollyanna as to deny the probability or recessions — Dun's Review