Pessimistic

Definition: Pessimistic

Pessimistic

Adjective

1. Expecting the worst in this worst of all possible worlds.

Date "pessimistic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Antonym: optimistic (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Pessimistic

English words defined with "pessimistic": bear ♦ cheerlessness ♦ depression ♦ Inge ♦ Pessimistical, pessimistically ♦ the Gloomy Dean ♦ uncheerfulness, unduly ♦ William Ralph Inge. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pessimistic": worst-case minimum access. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pessimistic

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Bradford was pessimistic, but implied that maybe all was not lost. (The Creeping Terror; writing credit: Arthur Ross; Robert Silliphant)
Lyrics	And that would be pessimistic. (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal)
Clever	No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway. (references; author: unknown)
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Commercial Usage: Pessimistic

Domain	Title
Books	Max Weber's Political Sociology: A Pessimistic Vision of a Rationalized World (Contributions in Sociology) (reference) Timon of Athens: Shakespeare's Pessimistic Tragedy (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Pessimistic Tourist [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pessimistic

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Others may become irritable or uncharacteristically pessimistic. (references)
		Dramatic findings, some presented at this workshop, are now changing that pessimistic outlook. (references)
Business		Even in one pessimistic scenario, the GOU gives quite optimistic figures on the country�s economic growth. (references)
		Research done by a leading market research company specializing in pharmaceutical and cosmetics markets, COMCON-Pharma, shows a more pessimistic picture of the Russian middle class. (references)
		The most pessimistic assessments are that the market actually shrank in 1997, perhaps as much as 20 percent, and began a modest recovery in 2000. We believe the latter to be the most likely scenario. (references)
Economic History	Canada	In the fourth quarter of 2000, a slowdown in the US economy that was linked to massive declines in North American stock markets spilled over into Canada, which resulted in lower growth for the year and more pessimistic expectations for both economies in 2001 and 2002. Several forecasters project Canada's economy will outperform the US economy in 2001 and 2002 primarily because of strong external demand for Canadian energy products and Canada's competitive foreign exchange rate. (references)
Women	Australia	However, a study released by the Australian Institute of Management in May 2000 was more pessimistic; it found that women were paid only 66 percent of their male counterparts' wages. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Pessimistic

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	There were also pessimistic predictions about the relationship between our administration and this Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Pessimistic

"Pessimistic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Pessimistic" is used about 381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.74%	380	14,447
Noun (proper)	0.26%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	381	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Pessimistic

Expression using "pessimistic": pessimistic view. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "pessimistic": somewhat-pessimistic.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pessimistic

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pessimistic	19
pessimistic quote	12
define pessimistic	3
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Modern Translations: Pessimistic

Language		Translations for "pessimistic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pesimist (croaker, downbeat, dyspeptic, pessimist), ndjellazi (pessimist), ndjellakeq (portentous). (various references)

Arabic		‏متشائم (biliousness, black, cynic, cynical, dim, gloomy). (various references)

Bulgarian		песимистичен. (various references)

Chinese		悲观 (Pessimism, Pessimistical). (various references)

Czech		pesimistický. (various references)

Dutch		zwaarhoofdig, pessimistisch. (various references)

Esperanto		pesimisma. (various references)

Farsi		وابسته به بدبینی , بدبین (Pessimist). (various references)

Finnish		pessimistinen. (various references)

French		pessimiste (pessimist). (various references)

German		pessimistisch (jaundiced). (various references)

Greek		δυσοίωνοσ (black, inauspicious, inauspiciousness, ominous, portentous, sinister, sinistrous). (various references)

Hebrew		פסימי. (various references)

Hungarian		pesszimista (dyer in black, pessimist). (various references)

Indonesian		pesimistis. (various references)

Italian		pessimistico. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		厭世的 , ペガスス座 (black plague, Pegasus, Pekingology, pessimism, pessimist), 悲観的 , 根暗 (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, moody). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ペシミスティック , ねくら (dark-natured, dour, glum, insular, introverted, moody), ひかんてき, えんせいてき. (various references)

Korean		비관 (Pessimistical). (various references)

Manx		doo-aignagh (pessimist). (various references)

Pig Latin		essimisticpay

Portuguese		pessimista (croaker, cross-patch, pessimist, pest). (various references)

Romanian		pesimist (futilitarian, pessimist, pessimistically). (various references)

Russian		пессимистический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pesimističan. (various references)

Spanish		pesimista (depressed, gloomy, pessimist, somber, sombre). (various references)

Swedish		pessimistisk. (various references)

Turkish		pesimistik, karamsar (dejected, depressed, downbeat, heavy-hearted, low, somber, sombre), kötümser (calamity howler, cynic, downbeat, Jeremiah, pessimist), bedbín. (various references)

Ukranian		песимістичний (negative, pessimistical). (various references)

Vietnamese		yếm thế, bi quan. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pessimistic

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pessimistic": pessimistically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pessimistic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: passimistic, persimitis, pesamistic, pesemistic, pesimistic, pessamistic, pessemistic, pessimestic, pessimitic, pessismistic, pessmistic, pestimistic, psammitic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pessimistic"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pessimistic" (pronounced pe'sumi"stik)
7	-u m i" s t i k	euphemistic, optimistic.
6	-m i" s t i k	mystic.
5	-i" s t i k	altruistic, anachronistic, antagonistic, artistic, atheistic, autistic, ballistic, capitalistic, characteristic, chauvinistic, coloristic, cystic, deterministic, dualistic, expressionistic, fatalistic, feudalistic, futuristic, hedonistic, holistic, humanistic, idealistic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, jingoistic, journalistic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, materialistic, mechanistic, militaristic, monopolistic, moralistic, narcissistic, nationalistic, naturalistic, novelistic, oligopolistic, opportunistic, pantheistic, paternalistic, patristic, pluralistic, polytheistic, primitivistic, propagandistic, puristic, realistic, relativistic, ritualistic, sadistic, sensationalistic, simplistic, socialistic, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, synergistic, terroristic, uncharacteristic, unrealistic, voyeuristic.
4	-s t i k	acoustic, agnostic, atavistic, bombastic, caustic, diagnostic, domestic, drastic, drumstick, dynastic, ecclesiastic, elastic, enthusiastic, evangelistic, fantastic, gymnastic, iconoclastic, inelastic, interscholastic, majestic, masochistic, monastic, onomastic, plastic, rustic, sarcastic, scholastic, thermoplastic, unenthusiastic.
3	-t i k	acetic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, alphabetic, amniotic, analytic, anesthetic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, athletic, attic, authentic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, catalytic, cathartic, chaotic, charismatic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, diabetic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, dramatic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enzymatic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, exotic, extragalactic, fanatic, ferromagnetic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, halophytic, hectic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, homeostatic, homiletic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, lymphatic, magnetic, mathematic, melodramatic, monochromatic, narcotic, neritic, neurotic, numismatic, operatic, optic, orthodontic, pancreatic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, pathetic, patriotic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, phonetic, phosphatic, pneumatic, poetic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, quixotic, rheumatic, robotic, romantic, schematic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, septic, skeptic, static, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unpatriotic, unsympathetic.
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Anagrams: Pessimistic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-m-p-s-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: pessimist.
	-3 letters: cesspits, miscites, missteps, pietisms, spiciest.
	-4 letters: cesspit, cissies, miscite, missets, missies, misstep, mitises, pietism, seismic, septics, stimies.
	-5 letters: cities, iciest, isseis, misses, misset, missis, pisses, pistes, pities, seisms, sepsis, septic, smites, speiss, spices, spites, stimes, stipes, tmesis.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-m-p-s-s-s-t"
	+3 letters: implicitnesses.
	+4 letters: impressionistic, misdescriptions, pessimistically.
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