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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bearish \Bear"ish\, a.
     1. Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in
        temper or manners. --Harris.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Stock market) Fearful of or anticipating falling prices,


        as in the stock market; as, bearish sentiment inhibited
        buying.
        [PJC]
  
     3. (Stock market) Tending to cause prices to fall. "bearish
        news about inflation caused a sharp drop in the Dow."
        [PJC]
  
     4. Hence: Pessimistic.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bearish
       adj : expecting prices to fall

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "bearish":
     abrupt, aggressive, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, brash, brusque,
     cankered, cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross,
     cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable,
     excitable, feisty, fractious, gruff, harsh, huffish, huffy,
     irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, perverse, rough, severe, sharp,
     short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly,
     testy, truculent, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish
  
  

















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