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Pollyanish

Pollyanish is the alternative form of Pollyannish.

Meaning of Pollyannish

Adjective

Pollyannish (comparative more Pollyannish, superlative most Pollyannish)

  1. (derogatory) irrepressibly or excessively optimistic; capable of seeing good in anyone
    • […] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10

Forms of Pollyanish

comparativemore Pollyanish
superlativemost Pollyanish

Questions about Pollyanish

What is Pollyanish the alternative form of?
Pollyanish is the alternative form of Pollyannish.

Words near Pollyanish in the dictionary

  1. Polly-Anna
  2. polly-fox
  3. polly-foxed
  4. polly-foxes
  5. polly-foxing
  6. Pollyanish
  7. pollyanna
  8. Pollyanna creep
  9. pollyanna-ish
  10. pollyannaish
  11. Pollyannaishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pollyanish (page history and authors); Pollyannish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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