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pessimistic
[ pes-uh-mis-tik ]
adjective
- pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful:
His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
Synonyms: hopeless, despairing
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Other Words From
- pessi·misti·cal·ly adverb
- nonpes·si·mistic adjective
- nonpes·si·misti·cal·ly adverb
- over·pessi·mistic adjective
- over·pessi·misti·cal·ly adverb
- unpes·si·mistic adjective
- unpes·si·misti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pessimistic1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?
“I fall very much on the pessimistic spectrum, in the sense that I get very confused about it,” she says.
But otherwise he was far more pessimistic about the rest of the Deep South.
It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.
But at the time I was so pessimistic that the notion of staying and fighting just seemed like an empty gesture.
My brother recovered his old spirit and refused to be discouraged by my pessimistic view of his expedition.
Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
Then I received a pessimistic letter from Aunt H—— telling me that lots of wounded were expected and that the war would not cease.
But in his most dangerous crisis he had never been restless, apprehensive, pessimistic, as he was at this moment.
He was disposed to a critical and sometimes pessimistic examination of his own feelings and of other people's actions.
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