POLLYANNAS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

Pollyannas

noun

plural of Pollyanna

as in optimists

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Noun

Other studies have found that people with a positive mindset are 31% more productive and that optimists outsell their pessimistic peers by 37%.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 22 Sep. 2026
But there are still optimists who point out the potential upside is still vast.

— Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of optimists

Noun

At its core, Dark Matter is a series about the folly and hubris of humankind, even when — nay, especially when — idealists have the power to achieve transformative change.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The campaign, which has highlighted divides over support for Israel, is a show for moderates against progressives, insiders against outsiders and pragmatists against idealists.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of idealists

Noun

The youth of the country, along with some dreamers and fighters, were the ones pushing it forward little by little.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Among its most memorable attractions is a historic railroad that once carried artists and archaeologists, dreamers and scientists, some of whom traveled on the train incognito before participating in the top-secret Manhattan Project.

— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of dreamers

Noun

The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of utopians

Noun

Sorry to all the hopeless romantics, but the answer is TAP-DANCED.

— Sean McGowan, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of romantics

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