PANGLOSS

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• PANGLOSS (noun)
  The noun PANGLOSS has 1 sense:

1. an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire

  Familiarity information: PANGLOSS used as a noun is very rare.

• PANGLOSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

 Context examples 

Pangloss for himself; and very earnestly, but very unsuccessfully, trying to persuade the others that there were some fine tragic parts in the rest of the dramatis personae.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)