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pessimist

/pes-uh-mist/US // ˈpɛs ə mɪst //

悲观主义者,悲观者,悲观主义,消极主义者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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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Examples

  • Those who identify as optimists can be too quick to dismiss or downplay the problems of technology, while self-styled technology pessimists or progress skeptics can be too reluctant to believe in solutions.

  • We should be fundamentally neither optimists nor pessimists, but solutionists.

  • 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.