pessimistic

English

Etymology

pessimist +‎ -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstɪk

Adjective

pessimistic (comparative more pessimistic, superlative most pessimistic)

1. Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.

   a pessimistic view of the future

2. Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.

   a pessimistic estimate

3. (computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.

   pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

Antonyms

• optimistic

Derived terms

• pessimistic time

 

Related terms

• pessimal
• pessimism
• pessimist

Translations

marked by pessimism and little hopefulness

• Arabic: مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim)
• Armenian: հոռետեսական (hy) (hoṙetesakan)
• Belarusian: песімісты́чны (pjesimistýčny)
• Bulgarian: песимисти́чен (bg) (pesimistíčen)
• Catalan: pessimista (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 悲觀／悲观 (bei¹ gun¹)

  Mandarin: 悲觀的／悲观的 (zh) (bēiguān de)

• Czech: pesimistický (cs)
• Danish: pessimistisk
• Finnish: pessimistinen (fi), synkkä (fi)
• French: pessimiste (fr)
• Galician: pesimista
• German: pessimistisch (de)
• Greek: πεσιμιστικός (el) (pesimistikós), απαισιόδοξος (el) (apaisiódoxos)
• Hungarian: pesszimisztikus (hu), pesszimista (hu)
• Icelandic: svartsýnn, bölsýnn
• Indonesian: pesimistis (id)
• Italian: pessimista (it), pessimistico (it)
• Japanese: 悲観的 (ja) (ひかんてき, hikanteki)
• Korean: 비관적 (bigwanjeok)
• Maori: (ngākau) hākerekere
• Norwegian: pessimistisk
• Plautdietsch: dunkelsiedich
• Polish: pesymistyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: pessimista (pt)
• Russian: пессимисти́чный (ru) (pessimistíčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: песимистичан

  Roman: pesimističan (sh)

• Slovak: pesimistický
• Spanish: pesimista (es), agorero (es)
• Swedish: pessimistisk (sv)
• Thai: มองโลกในแง่ร้าย
• Turkish: pesimist (tr), karamsar (tr)
• Ukrainian: песимісти́чний (pesymistýčnyj)
• Volapük: badimik (vo)

always expecting the worst

• Arabic: مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim)
• Armenian: հոռետեսական (hy) (hoṙetesakan)
• Catalan: pessimista (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悲觀的／悲观的 (zh) (bēiguān de)

• Finnish: pessimistinen (fi), synkkämielinen
• French: pessimiste (fr)
• Galician: pesimista
• German: pessimistisch (de)
• Hungarian: pesszimista (hu), borúlátó (hu)
• Indonesian: pesimistis (id)
• Japanese: 悲観的 (ja) (ひかんてき, hikanteki)
• Norwegian: pessimistisk
• Persian: بدبین (fa), بد بینانه
• Plautdietsch: dunkelsiedich
• Portuguese: pessimista (pt)
• Russian: пессимисти́чный (ru) (pessimistíčnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: песимистичан

  Roman: pesimističan (sh)

• Spanish: pesimista (es)
• Swedish: pessimistisk (sv)
• Thai: มองโลกในแง่ร้าย
• Turkish: kötümser (tr)
• Volapük: badimik (vo)