pessimist
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/
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pesimista
- As a habitual pessimist, she always expected the worst to happen in any situation.
- optimists and pessimists
- Pessimists argue
- Pessimists say
And I hate to say this, but I've been a pessimist for much of that time.
- And I hate to say this, but I've been a pessimist for much of that time.
- But my personal attitude is, as General Dwight Eisenhower once said, pessimists never win wars.
- And there's a world full of pessimists.
- And I mean, like I say, I come away from this work a pessimist.
- Then they jump into this new thing and they become an informed pessimist.
- Can you be a hopeful pessimist?
- I am not as indignant as I once was in my criticism of pessimists.
- And I had a mate of mine, he went to school for pessimists, right, where he saw the class half empty.
- It's just the grandiose aspiration of an ordinary pessimist.
- So I'm, for example, a pessimist on fully autonomous driving in the near future.
- Even chronic pessimists can be right to be afraid, but it's pretty obvious that something is wrong here.
Examples
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The good thing about, you know, being around and being basically a pessimist is you get proved wrong a lot.
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It really looked like the pessimists might be right.
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I was just really, it turned me into a pessimist and I would not have describe myself that way before that job.
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- Why are you such a pessimist?
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You are a perfect pessimist.
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And I hate to say this, but I've been a pessimist for much of that time.
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I tend to be a pessimist, but I shouldn't be.
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I'm a short term pessimist and perhaps a long term optimist.
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Don't be such a pessimist, Mr. packer.
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-Don't be a pessimist.
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who often says that plans or ideas will not work
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7.4
A person who expects failure and gives up instead of trying to solve problems
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9.3
A person who thinks the future will be bad and expects disaster
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8.6
A person who often says negative things and lowers people's mood
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8.0
A person who always says bad things will happen
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8.9
A person who always expects bad things to happen
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8.2
A person who always expects the worst and often complains
A person who always sees the bad side of things and offers no solutions
A person who always expects things to go wrong
A person who always sees the bad side of things
Antonyms
How Pessimistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
pessimist = pessimism (transparent) = pessim + ist
The agentive suffix '-ist' added to the pessim- stem yields 'a person who holds pessimism'; learners who know 'pessimism' and '-ist' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pessimist comes from the old Latin word pessimus, which means 'worst', so think of a pessimist as someone who expects the worst. It is the opposite of an optimist, who expects the best.