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ˈpɛs ə mɪstpes·simist

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. pessimistnoun

    Antonyms:
    optimist

  2. pessimistnoun

    Antonyms:
    optimist

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. pessimistnoun

    a person who expects the worst

    Antonyms:
    optimist

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  1. List of paraphrases for "pessimist":

    pessimism

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  1. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

    A pessimist finds the darkness around the light but an optimist becomes the light in the darkness.

  2. Doug Larson:

    An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

  3. Winston Churchill:

    A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  4. Albert Schweitzer:

    An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.

  5. Kahlil Gibran:

    The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.


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