Pessimistic

3 definitions found

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

  Pessimist \Pes"si*mist\, Pessimistic \Pes`si*mis"tic\, a.
     (Metaph.)
     Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism;
     gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt."
     --Encyc. Brit.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pessimistic
       adj : expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds
             [ant: {optimistic}]

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

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "pessimistic":
     Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, bleak, blue, bowed-down,
     cast down, cheerless, cynical, dashed, defeatist, dejected,
     depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, discouraged,
     disheartened, dismal, dispirited, down, downbeat, downcast,
     downhearted, drooping, droopy, feeling low, forlorn, gloomy, glum,
     heartless, hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal,
     in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps,
     inauspicious, joyless, languishing, low, low-spirited, melancholy,
     negative, negativistic, nihilistic, pessimist, pining, sad,
     spiritless, subdued, suicidal, uncheerful, unhappy, weary of life,
     woebegone, world-weary