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PESSIMIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who expects the worst

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pessimist" is a kind of...):

doubter; sceptic; skeptic (someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pessimist"):

defeatist; negativist (someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions)

Antonym:

optimist (a person disposed to take a favorable view of things)

Derivation:

pessimism (a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things)

pessimism (the feeling that things will turn out badly)

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