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Meanings of
pessimist
in English
Portuguese
pessimista
Catalan
pessimista
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A person who expects the worst.
optimist
Portuguese
pessimista
A person who expects the worst and looks on the downside of things.
alarmist
naysayer
worrywart
Synonyms
Examples for "
alarmist
"
alarmist
naysayer
worrywart
Examples for "
alarmist
"
1
He, on the contrary, took a more
alarmist
view of the situation.
2
One last resort the would-be patriotic
alarmist
seeks when all others fail.
3
Sánchez-Bayo said the unusually strong language used in the review was not
alarmist
.
4
But I also know that General Mettlich is an
alarmist
;
purred the Countess.
5
I am not being
alarmist
:
I don't want it to happen.
1
Russia, another
naysayer
in the past, has been signalling some flexibility.
2
The meditations of Martha Cochrane...the project's official
naysayer
...
are
worth any number of clever entertainments.
3
Cogan is not some
EV
-
naysayer
wedded to internal combustion.
4
I say to all the
naysayers
:
The best is yet to come.
5
In recent years, Levitt and Dubner have attracted a number of
naysayers
.
1
I wondered if I'd ever learn not to be such a
worrywart
.
2
Béla was a nice guy, but he was a
worrywart
.
3
So you gotta watch out for that
worrywart
,
workaholic facet of your personality this week.
4
For years Laura had called her a
worrywart
.
5
One
worrywart
in the house is enough.
Usage of
pessimist
in English
1
It is the cult of the
pessimist
,
the gentle malice of disillusion.
2
The
pessimist
always argues from a single instance to a general law.
3
The
pessimist
believes that forgetfulness and nothingness is the whole of man.
4
He was never more than a
pessimist
in theory at any time.
5
This was the beginning of my acquaintance with the
pessimist
,
Edmund Storm.
6
The
pessimist
looks from a limited and a one-sided point of view.
7
He is an uncompromising
pessimist
,
who sees the world as it is.
8
And knowing you were the greatest living authority on the
pessimist
thinkers-
9
He was considered a black
pessimist
at the time, and partly insane.
10
The very man who denounced Christianity for pessimism was himself a
pessimist
.
11
That you are not to become anything so commonplace as a
pessimist
.
12
Only a
pessimist
or a snob would dismiss such a question curtly.
13
I have been neither
pessimist
nor optimist-justmyself, and I believe happy.
14
I see Ricardo is disgusted with me, but he is a
pessimist
.
15
For a
pessimist
,
be it remembered, Schopenhauer led quite an extraordinary life.
16
Your worst
pessimist
is, after all, an optimist with regard to himself.
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pessimist
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
old pessimist
confirm pessimist
say the pessimist
bear a pessimist
deliberate pessimist
More collocations
Translations for
pessimist
Portuguese
pessimista
Catalan
pessimista
Pessimist
through the time
Pessimist
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common