pessimist

See also: Pessimist

English

Etymology

From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pessimist (plural pessimists)

1. Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.

Antonyms

• optimist

Hyponyms

• bear (in finance)

Related terms

• pessimism
• pessimistic

Translations

someone who habitually expects the worst outcome

• Arabic: مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim)
• Armenian: հոռետես (hy) (hoṙetes)
• Azerbaijani: bədbin (az), bədbin adam
• Bulgarian: песимист (bg) m (pesimist)
• Catalan: pessimista (ca) m or f
• Czech: pesimista (cs) m
• Dutch: zwartdenker m, doemdenker (nl) m, pessimist (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) pesimisto, (♀) pesimistino
• Finnish: pessimisti (fi)
• French: pessimiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: pesimista m or f
• German: Pessimist (de) m, Pessimistin (de) f
• Greek: απαισιόδοξος (el) (apaisiódoxos)
• Hungarian: pesszimista (hu)
• Ido: pesimisto (io)
• Indonesian: pesimis (id)
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• Norman: pessimiste m or f
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: pessimist m

  Norwegian Nynorsk: pessimist m

• Polish: pesymista (pl) m, pesymistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pessimista (pt) m or f
• Russian: пессими́ст (ru) m (pessimíst), пессими́стка (ru) f (pessimístka)
• Serbo-Croatian: pesìmist (sh) m
• Spanish: pesimista (es) m or f, agorero (es) m
• Swedish: pessimist (sv) c
• Turkish: pesimist (tr), kötümser (tr), karamsar (tr), bedbin (tr)
• Volapük: (♂♀) badiman (vo), (♂) hibadiman, (♀) jibadiman
• Welsh: pesimist m

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Danish

Noun

pessimist c (singular definite pessimisten, plural indefinite pessimister)

1. pessimist

Declension

Declension of pessimist

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pessimist	pessimisten	pessimister	pessimisterne
genitive	pessimists	pessimistens	pessimisters	pessimisternes

Antonyms

• optimist

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

pessimist m (plural pessimisten, diminutive pessimistje n, feminine pessimiste)

1. pessimist

Synonyms

• (pessimist): doemdenker, zwartdenker, zwartkijker

Descendants

• Indonesian: pesimis

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

pessimist m (definite singular pessimisten, indefinite plural pessimister, definite plural pessimistene)

1. a pessimist

Antonyms

• optimist

Related terms

• pessimisme

References

• “pessimist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pessimist m (definite singular pessimisten, indefinite plural pessimistar, definite plural pessimistane)

1. a pessimist

Antonyms

• optimist

Related terms

• pessimisme

References

• “pessimist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.