Difference between Cheerful and Pollyannaish

CHEERFUL vs POLLYANNAISH: ADJECTIVE

Bright and pleasant
Noticeably happy and optimistic.
Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Promoting a feeling of cheer; pleasant.
Being in or characterized by good spirits; merry. : glad.
Being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
Pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

Having or showing good spirits
Being full of or promoting cheer
Synonyms Lightsome, gleeful, blithe, airy, sprightly, jocund, jolly, buoyant. See cheery.
Promoting or causing cheerfulness; gladdening; animating; genial: as, the cheerful sun; a cheerful fire.
Characterized by or expressive of good spirits; associated with agreeable feelings; lively; animated: as, cheerful songs.
Cordially willing; genial in action; hearty; ungrudging.
Of good cheer; having good spirits; gay; lively: said of persons.

Debonair, Optimistic, Beaming, Sunny, Blithe, Twinkly, Buoyant, Lighthearted, Jaunty, Upbeat, Chipper, Smiling, Perky, Chirpy, Cheery

Shortsighted, Unrealistic, Disingenuous, Delusional, Simpleminded, Cynical, Pessimistic, Simplistic, Defeatist, Wishful, Panglossian, Naive, Cheerful, Upbeat, Optimistic

Debonair, Optimistic, Beaming, Sunny, Blithe, Twinkly, Buoyant, Lighthearted, Jaunty, Upbeat, Chipper, Smiling, Perky, Chirpy, Cheery

Shortsighted, Unrealistic, Disingenuous, Delusional, Simpleminded, Cynical, Pessimistic, Simplistic, Defeatist, Wishful, Panglossian, Naive, Cheerful, Upbeat, Optimistic

My partner and i am cheerful to know.
The feeling for all that was more cheerful.
They endured many health problems, but remained cheerful.
The birds sing only when they are cheerful.
Its too bloody happy and cheerful by half.
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting.
Eve is more cheerful, glittering, sparkling and shining and the atmosphere is vivid and cheerful.
Cheerful Christmas Elves Vector illustration of two cheerful Christmas elves wearing santa hats and pantyhoses.
But his tweets so far this week have been surprisingly cheerful, and a cheerful Trump is bad news for everyone.
Always looking on the more cheerful side, his very smile and cheerful words of encouragement gave us new heart.

The type of leadership called for here is not of this sort: it is pragmatic, not Pollyannaish; it is earned, not imparted.
An attendee said the tone of the briefing, which the campaign said was scheduled over the summer, was boosterish but not Pollyannaish.
Pollyannaish world view in which positive expectancies for the future are the sole determinant of future outcomes.
This concern was dismissed by most Republicans as moral preening or a Pollyannaish unwillingness to recognize the distinction between private morality and realpolitik.
As Chaulia notes in his introductory chapter, the book "transcends Pollyannaish delusions about aid agencies".
Pollyannaish attitude that, for them, deeply missed the point.
Pollyannaish appraisal of the threats facing America today.