单词 | panglossic |
释义 | > as lemmasPanˈglossic Panˈglossic adj. rare = Panglossian adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > optimism > [adjective] > unrealistically rose-coloured1780 couleur de rose1783 rose-tinted1783 Panglossian1831 rose pink1837 Micawber-like1855 Micawberish1859 Pangloss1881 blue-sky1895 Panglossic1926 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xii. 147 This conclusion, from its inception with some of the Stoics to its Panglossic latter end in certain evolutionists, he dismisses. 1976 Contemp. Sociol. 5 690/1 This first part is grounded in careful scholarship, and relatively free of the Panglossic view—pervading the rest of the book—that the American university is the best of all possible worlds in which to increase scientific knowledge. < as lemmas |
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