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Panglosses

Panglosses is the plural of Pangloss.

Meaning of Pangloss

Noun

Pangloss (plural Panglosses)

  1. A naively or unreasonably optimistic person.
    • I am as much a Pangloss as ever, only less contemptuous than I used to be, when I argue how unwise it is to feel contempt for anything.1797 July, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “LXXIV. To Robert Southey”, in Ernest Hartley Coleridge, editor, Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company...

Questions about Panglosses

What is Panglosses the plural of?
Panglosses is the plural of Pangloss.

Words near Panglosses in the dictionary

  1. panglessly
  2. panglial
  3. panglobal
  4. panglomerular
  5. Pangloss
  6. Panglosses
  7. Panglossian
  8. Panglossianism
  9. Panglossic
  10. Pangnirtung
  11. pangnosis

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