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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| Panglossian |
| SYLLABICATION: | Pan·gloss·i·an |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n-gl s  - n, -glôs-, png- |
| ADJECTIVE: | Blindly or naively optimistic. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | After Pangloss, an optimist in Candide, a satire by Voltaire. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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