Pessimist Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Pessimist

worrier
A person who worries a great deal, especially unnecessarily.
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bear
The definition of bear is a large mammal found in America and Eurasia which has thick fur or a big person or a person who is cranky and grumpy.
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crapehanger
(Slang) A pessimist or killjoy
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killjoy
One who spoils the enthusiasm or fun of others.
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sourpuss
(Slang) A person who has a gloomy or disagreeable expression or nature
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cassandra
(Gr. Myth., person, proper, GIVEN NAMES) A daughter of Priam and Hecuba: to win her love, Apollo gives her prophetic power, but when thwarted, decrees that no one will believe her prophecies
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doomsayer
A person disposed to predicting catastrophe, disaster, etc.
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worrywart
(Informal) A person who tends to worry, esp. over insignificant details
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complainer
One who complains, or is known for their complaints.
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melancholic
A person who is habitually melancholy.
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depreciator
One who depreciates.
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croaker
(Slang) A doctor.
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crepehanger
Alternative form of crapehanger.
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gloomy-gus
(Informal) A person with a sullen, unhappy appearance or demeanor; a person with a pessimistic outlook.
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realist
(Philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
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misanthrope
A person who hates or distrusts all people
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Antonyms for Pessimist

optimist
One who usually expects a favorable outcome.
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Words Related to Pessimist

hope
(Uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
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sceptic
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cynic
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Pessimist Sentence Examples

  • Carlyle was throughout a pessimist or a prophet denouncing a backsliding world.

  • There is a touch of Byron, Swinburne and even of Schopenhauer in many of his rubais, which clearly proves that the modern pessimist is by no means a novel creature in the realm of philo- sophic thought and poetical imagination.

  • At first our prophet was not altogether a pessimist.

  • In ethics he was a pessimist.

  • Till Amos (with the solitary exception of Micaiah ben Imlah, in i Kings xxii.) prophecy was optimist - even Elijah, if he denounced the destruction of a dynasty and the annihilation of all who had bowed the knee to Baal, never doubted of the future of the nation when only the faithful remained; but the new prophecy is pessimist - it knows that Israel is rotten to the core, and that the whole fabric of society must be dissolved before reconstruction is possible.

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