Usually means: Unrealistically optimistic, ignoring negative aspects.
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  1. Pollyannaish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Pollyannaish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pollyannaish: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Pollyannaish, pollyannaish: Wiktionary
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  1. Pollyannaish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pollyannaish)

adjective:  (derogatory) Unreasonably optimistic.
adjective:  Alternative form of Pollyannaish [(derogatory) Unreasonably optimistic.]

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