New word for the wishy-washy optimist

A coworker passed me in the hall, saying “Hey, how ya’ doin’?”

I experienced a sudden decrease in ethusiasm midway through the sentence for some reason1, because I responded, “I’m doing gr-ood.”

So, grood. Better than good, not quite great.

1 Actually, I know the reason. I am about to head the lab to debug a problem with a prototype, and while I started with my usual “great”, I realized partway through that that was not completely honest, and if things were truly great, the prototype would be working already.

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