pessimismnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈpes.ɪ.mɪ.zəm/us/ˈpes.ə.mɪ.zəm/emphasizing or thinking of the bad part of a situation rather than the good part, or the feeling that bad things are more likely to happen than good things:
There is now a mood of deepening pessimism about/over the economy.
An underlying pessimism infuses all her novels.
Opposite
optimism
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- lose
- negative
- negativity
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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pessimist
noun [ C ] uk/ˈpes.ɪ.mɪst/us/ˈpes.ə.mɪst/
Don't be such a pessimist!