Marked by little hopefulness

• gloomy

  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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• dismal

  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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• dark

  1. Lacking or having very little light:
  2. Lacking brightness:
  3. Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black:

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  1. Lacking or having very little light:
  2. Lacking brightness:
  3. Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black:

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Discouraging

• downbeat

  1. The first beat of a measure.
  2. The downward stroke made by a conductor to indicate the first beat of a measure.
  3. Cheerless; pessimistic.

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  1. The first beat of a measure.
  2. The downward stroke made by a conductor to indicate the first beat of a measure.
  3. Cheerless; pessimistic.

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• worrisome

  1. Causing worry or anxiety.
  2. Tending to worry; anxious.

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  1. Causing worry or anxiety.
  2. Tending to worry; anxious.

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• dismal

  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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  1. Causing gloom or depression; dreary:
  2. Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit:
  3. Dreadful; disastrous.

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• bleak

  1. Gloomy and somber:
  2. Providing no encouragement; depressing:
  3. Cold and cutting; raw:

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  1. Gloomy and somber:
  2. Providing no encouragement; depressing:
  3. Cold and cutting; raw:

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Inclined to a discouraging view

• sneering

  1. Present participle of sneer.
  2. The act of one who sneers.

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  1. Present participle of sneer.
  2. The act of one who sneers.

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• sullen

  1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
  2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
  3. Sluggish; slow:

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  1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
  2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
  3. Sluggish; slow:

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• distrustful

  1. Feeling or showing doubt.

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  1. Feeling or showing doubt.

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• despairing

  1. Characterized by or resulting from despair; hopeless:

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  1. Characterized by or resulting from despair; hopeless:

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• downhearted

  1. Low in spirit; depressed.

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  1. Low in spirit; depressed.

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• despondent

  1. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected.

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  1. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected.

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• morbid

  1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease:
  2. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased:
  3. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome:

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  1. Given to or characterized by unwholesome thoughts or feelings, especially of death or disease:
  2. Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased:
  3. Psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome:

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• morose

  1. Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.

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  1. Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.

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• sullen

  1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
  2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
  3. Sluggish; slow:

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  1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
  2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent:
  3. Sluggish; slow:

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• depressed

  1. Low in spirits; dejected.
  2. Suffering from clinical depression.
  3. Sunk below the surrounding region:

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  1. Low in spirits; dejected.
  2. Suffering from clinical depression.
  3. Sunk below the surrounding region:

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• melancholy

  1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
  2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.
  3. Black bile.

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  1. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
  2. Pensive reflection or contemplation.
  3. Black bile.

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• defeatist

  1. a person who too readily accepts or expects defeat
  2. of or characteristic of a defeatist

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  1. a person who too readily accepts or expects defeat
  2. of or characteristic of a defeatist

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• negativistic

  1. passive-aggressive

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  1. passive-aggressive

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• negative

  1. Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial:
  2. Indicating opposition or resistance:
  3. Unpleasant; disagreeable:

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  1. Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial:
  2. Indicating opposition or resistance:
  3. Unpleasant; disagreeable:

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• misanthropic

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  2. Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.

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  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
  2. Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.

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• cynical

  1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others:
  2. Selfishly or callously calculating:
  3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness:

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  1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others:
  2. Selfishly or callously calculating:
  3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness:

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• gloomy

  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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  1. Partially or totally dark, especially dismal and dreary:
  2. Showing or filled with gloom:
  3. Causing or producing gloom; depressing:

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• hopeless

  1. Having no hope; despairing:
  2. Characterized by despair:
  3. Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible:

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  1. Having no hope; despairing:
  2. Characterized by despair:
  3. Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible:

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Believing in philosophic pessimism

• realistic

  1. Tending to or expressing an awareness of things as they really are:
  2. Of or relating to the representation of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are:

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  1. Tending to or expressing an awareness of things as they really are:
  2. Of or relating to the representation of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are:

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• rationalistic

  1. Of or relating to rationalism.

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  1. Of or relating to rationalism.

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• mechanistic

  1. Mechanically determined.
  2. Of or relating to the philosophy of mechanism, especially tending to explain phenomena only by reference to physical or biological causes.
  3. Automatic and impersonal; mechanical.

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  1. Mechanically determined.
  2. Of or relating to the philosophy of mechanism, especially tending to explain phenomena only by reference to physical or biological causes.
  3. Automatic and impersonal; mechanical.

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• deterministic

  1. Predictive. Referring to the ability to objectively predict an outcome or result of a process due to knowledge of a cause and effect relationship.
  2. In telecommunications switching and routing, the programmed predetermination of a path between nodes. See also node, path, route, and switch.
  3. In local area networks (LANs), a non-contentious medium access control (MAC) convention that allows both the centralized master station, which commonly is in the form of a server, and each slaved station to determine the maximum length of time that passes before a station gains access to the network, perhaps on the basis of programmed access priorities. Deterministic access employs token passing, a protocol in which a token, which consists of a specific bit pattern, indicates the status of the network -- available or unavailable.The token is generated by a centralized master control station and transmitted across the network.The station in possession of the token (the last station to receive the message containing the token) controls the access to the network. That station may either transmit or require other stations to respond. Transmission is in the form of a data packet of a predetermined maximum size, determined by the number of nodes on the ring and the traffic to be supported. After transmitting, the station passes the token to a successor station, in a predetermined sequence. Token passing is complex and overhead-intensive, but the associated high level of network control avoids data collisions.Token Ring is a deterministic LAN protocol. See also LAN, MAC, master/slave, node, non-deterministic, token passing, and Token Ring.

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  1. Predictive. Referring to the ability to objectively predict an outcome or result of a process due to knowledge of a cause and effect relationship.
  2. In telecommunications switching and routing, the programmed predetermination of a path between nodes. See also node, path, route, and switch.
  3. In local area networks (LANs), a non-contentious medium access control (MAC) convention that allows both the centralized master station, which commonly is in the form of a server, and each slaved station to determine the maximum length of time that passes before a station gains access to the network, perhaps on the basis of programmed access priorities. Deterministic access employs token passing, a protocol in which a token, which consists of a specific bit pattern, indicates the status of the network -- available or unavailable.The token is generated by a centralized master control station and transmitted across the network.The station in possession of the token (the last station to receive the message containing the token) controls the access to the network. That station may either transmit or require other stations to respond. Transmission is in the form of a data packet of a predetermined maximum size, determined by the number of nodes on the ring and the traffic to be supported. After transmitting, the station passes the token to a successor station, in a predetermined sequence. Token passing is complex and overhead-intensive, but the associated high level of network control avoids data collisions.Token Ring is a deterministic LAN protocol. See also LAN, MAC, master/slave, node, non-deterministic, token passing, and Token Ring.

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• fatalistic

  1. Of or pertaining to fatalism
  2. submissive to fate

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  1. Of or pertaining to fatalism
  2. submissive to fate

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