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Definition of
Pessimistic
Pessimistic
pes·si·mis·tic
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(adjective)
the quality of having no hope or positive expectations about something and expecting the worst to occur out of all possibilities;
e.g. His pessimistic attitude led him to never even apply for a new job.
Similar Words
Bearish
Careworn
Cynical
Despairing
Downbeat
Hard-edged
Hardcase
Hopeless
Howling
Misanthropic
Tough-minded
Unromantic
Opposite Words
Auspicious
Beamish
Bullish
Cheerful
Cheery
Chipper
Encouraging
Fair
Favorable
Golden
Good
Hopeful
Idealist
Likely
Maudlin
Mushy
Optimistic
Panglossian
Pollyanna
Promising
Propitious
Reassuring
Romantic
Rose-colored
Roseate
Rosy
Saccharine
Sappy
Sentimental
Sunny
Upbeat
Utopian
Visionary
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Agonized
Anguished
Bitter
Black
Bleak
Cheerless
Chill
Cimmerian
Cloudy
Cold
Contrary
Dark
Depressing
Depressive
Desolate
Despairing
Desperate
Despondent
Dire
Disconsolate
Dismal
Distrustful
Doleful
Dolorous
Down-to-earth
Dreary
Elegiac
Forlorn
Funeral
Funereal
Gloomy
Glum
Godforsaken
Gray
Grey
Grim
Hard-bitten
Hard-boiled
Hard-edged
Hardcase
Hardheaded
Heartbroken
Hopeless
Hostile
Inauspicious
Ironic
Jaded
Lamentable
Lonely
Lonesome
Lugubrious
Matter-of-fact
Miserable
Morbid
Morose
Mournful
Murky
Negative
Plaintive
Plangent
Plutonian
Practical
Pragmatic
Realistic
Regretful
Rueful
Sarcastic
Sardonic
Saturnine
Scornful
Sepulchral
Skeptical
Solemn
Somber
Sorrowful
Sorry
Sullen
Sunless
Suspicious
Tenebrific
Tenebrous
Unlikely
Unpromising
Unsentimental
Weeping
Woeful
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