Added to
Favorites
Sign Up
Log In
Introducing a cool
new way to learn!
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Word Dynamo
Quotes
Reference
Translator
Spanish
Related Searches
Difference betwee...
Photostats
Idle cohort
Nearby Words
bearing out
bearing pedesta...
bearing pile
bearing plate
bearing rail
bearing rein
bearing ring
bearing sword
bearing up
bearing up on
bearing upon
bearing wall
bearing with
bearing-down pa...
bearing-on
bearing-plate
bearing-rail
bearing-rein
bearing-sword
bearing-wall
bearish
bearleader
bearlike
bearn
bearnaise
bearnaise sauce
bearnaise-sauce
bearpaw
bears down
bears down on
bears down up o...
bears down upon
bears off
bears on
bears out
bears paw
bears up
bears up on
bears upon
bears with
bears-breech
bearish
[
bair
-ish
]
Origin
bear·ish
/
ˈbɛər
ɪʃ
/
Show Spelled
[
bair
-ish
]
Show IPA
adjective
1.
like a bear; rough, burly, or clumsy.
2.
Informal
.
grumpy, bad-mannered, or rude.
3.
Commerce
.
a.
declining or tending toward a decline in prices.
b.
characterized by or reflecting unfavorable prospects for the economy or some aspect of it:
a bearish market.
Origin:
1735–45;
bear
2
+
-ish
1
Related forms
bear·ish·ly,
adverb
bear·ish·ness,
noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To
bearish
:10
:09
:08
:07
:06
:05
:04
:03
:02
:01
Bearish
is always a great word to know.
So is
quincunx
. Does it mean:
So is
callithumpian
. Does it mean:
So is
ninnyhammer
. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
LEARN MORE UNUSUAL WORDS WITH WORD DYNAMO...
Collins
World English Dictionary
bearish
(ˈbɛərɪʃ)
—
adj
1.
like a bear; rough; clumsy; churlish
2.
stock exchange
causing, expecting, or characterized by a fall in prices:
a bearish market
'bearishly
—
adv
'bearishness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
bearish
"grumpy, surly," 1744, from
bear
(n.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source
Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com
Searching for
bearish
?
How many words do you actually know?
FIND OUT
Quote Of The Day
"I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates."
-Angela Carter
MORE
Partners:
Word
Bloglines
Citysearch
The Daily Beast
Ask Answers
Ask Kids
Life123
Sendori
Thesaurus
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright ©
2012
. All rights reserved.
About
Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
API
Careers
Advertise with Us
Contact Us
Help
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Favorites feature
Please
Login
or
Sign Up
to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT
How many words do you know?
FIND OUT