'Pessimistic' definitions:
Definition of 'pessimistic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Expecting the worst possible outcome [ant: optimistic]
Definition of 'Pessimistic'
From: GCIDE
- Pessimist \Pes"si*mist\, Pessimistic \Pes`si*mis"tic\, a. (Metaph.) Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pessimistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bleak,
- blue,
- bowed-down,
- Cassandra-like,
- Cassandran,
- Cassandrian,
- cast down,
- cheerless,
- cynical,
- dashed,
- defeatist,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despairing,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- dismal,
- dispirited,
- down,
- downbeat,
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- drooping,
- droopy,
- feeling low,
- forlorn,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- heartless,
- hopeless,
- hypochondriac,
- hypochondriacal,
- in low spirits,
- in the depths,
- in the doldrums,
- in the dumps,
- inauspicious,
- joyless,
- languishing,
- low,
- low-spirited,
- melancholy,
- negative,
- negativistic,
- nihilistic,
- pessimist,
- pining,
- sad,
- spiritless,
- subdued,
- suicidal,
- uncheerful,
- unhappy,
- weary of life,
- woebegone,
- world-weary