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pessimism

/pes-uh-miz-uhm/US // ˈpɛs əˌmɪz əm //UK // (ˈpɛsɪˌmɪzəm) //

悲观主义,悲观情绪,悲观论,悲观

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
    • : the doctrine that the existing world is the worst of all possible worlds, or that all things naturally tend to evil.
    • : the belief that the evil and pain in the world are not compensated for by goodness and happiness.

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Examples

  • This pessimism persisted, thanks in part to the continual warnings by experts and many in government that terrorist networks were growing, along with the chances of another attack.

  • Worldwide economic pessimism brought on by concerns over the delta variant is sending large amounts of capital to the sidelines.

  • I honestly don’t know what to believe, but the tension builds in my mind every day as I try to survive pessimism.

  • As I answered his questions, at times tinged with irony, anguish enveloped my head in a balloon of pessimism and nerves.

  • Economic historian Robert Gordon calls himself “the prophet of pessimism.”

  • In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.

  • My pessimism leads me to fight harder, or try to understand how I can do it differently.

  • Indeed, in some surveys pessimism about the next generation stands at an all-time high.

  • This pessimism—for all the discussion on campuses about “white privilege”—is even more deeply seated among young whites.

  • This pessimism is particularly intense among white working class voters, and large sections of the middle class.

  • Which simple sentence contains more wisdom than all the pessimism of the King of kings.

  • The disease of pessimism springs never from real troubles, which it braces men to bear, which it delights men to bear well.

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

  • Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?

  • Though his pessimism be in great part born of his climate, it has had a very real effect upon his statecraft.