Pessimist
noun
A person who always expects bad things to happen or thinks things will turn out for the worst.
Despite the promising economic forecast, he remained a pessimist and sold his stocks.
Often appears as...
- be a pessimist
- self-confessed pessimist
noun
A person who always expects bad things to happen or thinks things will turn out for the worst.
Despite the promising economic forecast, he remained a pessimist and sold his stocks.
Often appears as...
- be a pessimist
- self-confessed pessimist
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Expectation Mindset
Understand that pessimists expect negative outcomes, not just occasional bad luck.
He's such a pessimist, he even thought he'd lose the toy crane game.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
Pessimists tend to convey a gloomy or negative emotional tone in conversations.
When asked about the new project, she sighed like a true pessimist and predicted failure.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Perception
In some cultures, being a pessimist is frowned upon and seen as lack of optimism.
At the family dinner, his pessimist views on his job prospects silenced the room.
Compare with
cynicdefeatistdespairdisheartenfatalisticgloomymorbidnegative
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Is the world getting...
alluding to the Voltaire character who declared, "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Well, Professor Pangloss, as it happens, was a pessimist. A true optimist believes there can be much better worlds than the one we have today. But all of this is irrelevant, because the question of whether progress has taken place
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Yuval Noah Harari...
views like that things today are better than ever for humanity things are still quite bad and things can get much much worse so i'm not an optimist because i think that yes things are bad and they can get much worse but i'm not a pessimist either because i think that things are
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A bold idea to replace...
and doesn't know how to use the internet? Trust me, I've heard them all. So when you think about an idea like this, you have to beware of pessimists because they are known to have a problem for every solution. So I want to invite you to think about the bigger ideas.
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Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
For example, these two show great growth in income, absolutely flat happiness curves. My field, the field of psychology, hasn't done a whole lot to help us move forward in understanding human happiness. In part, we have the legacy of Freud, who was a pessimist,
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How We Can Make the...
and the world does still have plenty of problems. But the pessimists and doomsayers who say that the world can't get better are simply wrong. So how did we achieve this success? Well, a lot of it was because of economic growth.
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The surprising science...
flat happiness curve my field the field of psychology you know hasn't done a whole lot to help us move forward and understanding human happiness in part we have the legacy of Freud was a pessimist who said it for suit of
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Hans Rosling: Global...
neither am I a pessimist. I'm a very serious "possibilist." It's a new category where we take emotion apart, and we just work analytically with the world. It can be done. We can have a much more just world.
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Jonathan Zittrain: The...
and in my recent work I've been a bit of a pessimist. So I thought this morning I would try to be the optimist, and give reason to hope for the future of the Internet by drawing upon its present.
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Craig Venter: A voyage...
At the break, I was asked by several people about my comments about the aging debate. And this will be my only comment on it. And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.
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Evgeny Morozov: How the...
Good morning. I think, as a grumpy Eastern European, I was brought in to play the pessimist this morning. So bear with me.
Video examples
Is the world getting...
alluding to the Voltaire character who declared, "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Well, Professor Pangloss, as it happens, was a pessimist. A true optimist believes there can be much better worlds than the one we have today. But all of this is irrelevant, because the question of whether progress has taken place
Video examples
Yuval Noah Harari...
views like that things today are better than ever for humanity things are still quite bad and things can get much much worse so i'm not an optimist because i think that yes things are bad and they can get much worse but i'm not a pessimist either because i think that things are
Video examples
A bold idea to replace...
and doesn't know how to use the internet? Trust me, I've heard them all. So when you think about an idea like this, you have to beware of pessimists because they are known to have a problem for every solution. So I want to invite you to think about the bigger ideas.
Video examples
Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
For example, these two show great growth in income, absolutely flat happiness curves. My field, the field of psychology, hasn't done a whole lot to help us move forward in understanding human happiness. In part, we have the legacy of Freud, who was a pessimist,
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
and the world does still have plenty of problems. But the pessimists and doomsayers who say that the world can't get better are simply wrong. So how did we achieve this success? Well, a lot of it was because of economic growth.
Video examples
The surprising science...
flat happiness curve my field the field of psychology you know hasn't done a whole lot to help us move forward and understanding human happiness in part we have the legacy of Freud was a pessimist who said it for suit of
Video examples
Hans Rosling: Global...
neither am I a pessimist. I'm a very serious "possibilist." It's a new category where we take emotion apart, and we just work analytically with the world. It can be done. We can have a much more just world.
Video examples
Jonathan Zittrain: The...
and in my recent work I've been a bit of a pessimist. So I thought this morning I would try to be the optimist, and give reason to hope for the future of the Internet by drawing upon its present.
Video examples
Craig Venter: A voyage...
At the break, I was asked by several people about my comments about the aging debate. And this will be my only comment on it. And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.
Video examples
Evgeny Morozov: How the...
Good morning. I think, as a grumpy Eastern European, I was brought in to play the pessimist this morning. So bear with me.
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Quote examples
John Grant
American Musician
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
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James Gunn
American Director
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
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.
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James Branch Cabell
American Novelist
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Jacques Barzun
American Educator
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Physicist
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Josh Widdicombe
English Comedian
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
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Maynard James Keenan
American Singer
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
French Playwright
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
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John Grant
American Musician
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing up and saying, 'No, there must be a way for me to live in this world,' that shows I'm an eternal optimist.
Quote examples
James Gunn
American Director
I guess I am an optimist in a pessimist brain, if that makes any sense. I believe in the innate goodness of most people in this world, and yet I'm a damaged soul like many other people and have my own demons and things I struggle with.
Quote examples
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
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.
Quote examples
James Branch Cabell
American Novelist
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
Quote examples
Jacques Barzun
American Educator
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Quote examples
J. Robert Oppenheimer
American Physicist
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Quote examples
Josh Widdicombe
English Comedian
I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Author
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
Quote examples
Maynard James Keenan
American Singer
I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.
Quote examples
Cyrano de Bergerac
French Playwright
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
Example 1 of 10
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