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Meanings of pessimist in anglès

portuguès
pessimista
català
pessimista

A person who expects the worst.

pessimista

A person who expects the worst and looks on the downside of things.

Antonyms
Examples for "optimist"
Examples for "optimist"
1
He said: I am, to the astonishment of certain journalists, an optimist.
The Guardian
2
Hephaestus is an optimist and Zeus won't take 'no' for an answer.
Book Two: Descent
3
Without dismissing the problems faced by the world, he remains an optimist.
Radio NZ
4
Ever the optimist, Mugabe giggled and said that wasn't true at all.
The South African
5
The optimist not only believes in the best, he creates the better.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
Usage of pessimist in anglès
1
It is the cult of the pessimist, the gentle malice of disillusion.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
2
The pessimist always argues from a single instance to a general law.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
3
The pessimist believes that forgetfulness and nothingness is the whole of man.
Mike Fletcher: A Novel
4
He was never more than a pessimist in theory at any time.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900
5
This was the beginning of my acquaintance with the pessimist, Edmund Storm.
Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories
6
The pessimist looks from a limited and a one-sided point of view.
In Tune with the Infinite; or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Ple...
7
He is an uncompromising pessimist, who sees the world as it is.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
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And knowing you were the greatest living authority on the pessimist thinkers-
Manalive
9
He was considered a black pessimist at the time, and partly insane.
The Mantooth
10
The very man who denounced Christianity for pessimism was himself a pessimist.
Orthodoxy
11
That you are not to become anything so commonplace as a pessimist.
Senator North
12
Only a pessimist or a snob would dismiss such a question curtly.
Etiquette
13
I have been neither pessimist nor optimist-justmyself, and I believe happy.
Flames
14
I see Ricardo is disgusted with me, but he is a pessimist.
The Net
15
For a pessimist, be it remembered, Schopenhauer led quite an extraordinary life.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
16
Your worst pessimist is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.
The Rise of David Levinsky
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Translations for pessimist
portuguès
pessimista
català
pessimista
Pessimist through the time
Pessimist across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common