pollyannaish
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of Pollyannaish.
Example Sentences
- "Accordingly the objection “Is not optimalism simply too Pollyanna-ish to be plausible?” can be met effectively."
- "Even long before this choice of character of the year was made, critics were complaining about the [Chinese] government’s Pollyannaish touting of mèng 梦, saying that the dreams of most people were in vain."
- "If that sounds a little bit Pollyannaish, it’s because Schmidhuber’s own experience[…]must have taught him that competition can create losers as well as winners."
- "On this basis, Bridle argues, it’s possible to conceive of a new kind of “guardianship” of our frazzled planet and its poisoned wells, one in which we all work together. This seems Pollyanna-ish as much as Panglossian to me […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Pollyanna Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English Pollyannaish From Pollyanna + -ish.
Usage
Inflected Forms
more Pollyannaish (comparative)
most Pollyannaish (superlative)
pollyanna-ish (alternative)
pollyannish (alternative)