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pessimistic

/pes-uh-mis-tik/US // ˌpɛs əˈmɪs tɪk //

悲观,悲观的,悲观主义,悲观主义的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.expecting bad outcome

Examples

  • Not all of the economists in the survey were as pessimistic as Sinclair.

  • For companies to fall in this lowest tier means that investors are pessimistic about their future sales growth and profitability.

  • Corelogic, the financial data service, has made a baseline forecast that some three million homeowners will fall behind on their mortgage payments—and their pessimistic forecast predicts more than 12 million delinquent borrowers.

  • Assuming the most pessimistic scenario — that life requires stars to have at least as much metal as the sun — eliminates about two-thirds of the galaxy’s stars.

  • This message will resonate with Americans who are feeling pessimistic due to everything that has unfolded in 2020.

  • Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?

  • “I fall very much on the pessimistic spectrum, in the sense that I get very confused about it,” she says.

  • But otherwise he was far more pessimistic about the rest of the Deep South.

  • It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.

  • But at the time I was so pessimistic that the notion of staying and fighting just seemed like an empty gesture.

  • My brother recovered his old spirit and refused to be discouraged by my pessimistic view of his expedition.

  • Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.

  • Then I received a pessimistic letter from Aunt H—— telling me that lots of wounded were expected and that the war would not cease.

  • But in his most dangerous crisis he had never been restless, apprehensive, pessimistic, as he was at this moment.

  • He was disposed to a critical and sometimes pessimistic examination of his own feelings and of other people's actions.