Pessimistic Synonyms and Antonyms

pesəmistik
Discouraging
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dismal
  2. bleak
  3. worrisome
  4. downbeat
Antonyms:
  1. optimistic
  2. hopeful
  3. trusting
  4. confident
Inclined to a discouraging view
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. gloomy
  2. cynical
  3. hopeless
  4. despairing
  5. negative
  6. dark
  7. misanthropic
  8. negativistic
  9. defeatist
  10. bleak
  11. melancholy
  12. depressed
  13. sullen
  14. morose
  15. dismal
  16. morbid
  17. disbelieving
  18. despondent
  19. downhearted
  20. doubting
  21. distrustful
  22. foreboding
  23. sneering
  24. skeptical
Antonyms:
  1. optimistic
  2. confident
  3. sanguine
Believing in philosophic pessimism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. fatalistic
  2. deterministic
  3. mechanistic
  4. rationalistic
  5. realistic

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Pessimistic Sentence Examples

  • At the time in history when our future has never looked brighter, it is baffling that some people are more pessimistic than ever.

  • This pessimistic attitude is far removed from the positive hedonism of Aristippus.

  • Schopenhauer emphasizes the pessimistic side of Hegel's thought.

  • A pessimistic spirit is apparent, as in the writings of Wenceslaus Berent.

  • I can't stand being around pessimistic people for too long, they really bring me down.

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