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Another word for pessimistic

pessimistic Synonyms

pessimistic

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Discouraging
bleak, dismal, worrisome, downbeat*; see dismal 1.
Inclined to a discouraging view
hopeless, gloomy, cynical, misanthropic, negative, negativistic, defeatist, melancholy, depressed, sullen, morose, morbid, despondent, downhearted, despairing, distrustful, sullen, sneering; see also sad 1.
Antonyms confident*, optimistic, sanguine.
Believing in philosophic pessimism
fatalistic, deterministic, mechanistic, rationalistic, realistic.

pessimistic implies an attitude, often habitual, of seeing the dark side of things or expecting the worst to happen pessimistic about the prospects for peace; cynical implies a contemptuous disbelief in human goodness and sincerity cynical about recovering a lost watch; misanthropic suggests a deep-seated hatred or distrust of people in general a misanthropic hermit

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Marked by little hopefulness:

dark, dismal, gloomy. See happy, hope

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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.
In Europe on the whole the so-called pessimistic attitude was commoner in the Teutonic north than in the Mediterranean basin.

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