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pessimist

[ pes-uh-mist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
an adherent of the doctrine of pessimism.

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First recorded in 1830–40; pessim(ism) + -ist

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One such pessimist was the Mayor* of the town: A little while later, yielding to his vapors, he committed suicide.

Like Sendak, Miyazaki is somewhat cranky—a pessimist at odds with modernity.

Pessimist: Which is a big reason why young people find it so difficult to get started in life.

Pessimist: But most of the new jobs being created pay much less than the jobs lost in 2008-2009.

Pessimist: I thought you said you were an optimist - not a fantasist.

If a fervent desire to help Man, instead of wasting time in prayer to "God," is pessimism, I am a pessimist.

I ain't what they call a pessimist, but I thinks poorly of most things.

Clemens was forty-eight, and becoming more and more the philosopher; also, in logic at least, a good deal of a pessimist.

He was no pessimist, croaking out doleful prophecies and lamentations and bitter criticisms.

When the Semitic skin of Job is scratched, we find a modern pessimist beneath.

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