pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
Not all of the economists in the survey were as pessimistic as Sinclair.
Even With A Vaccine, The Economy Could Take Many Months To Return To Normal|Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux|August 25, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
For companies to fall in this lowest tier means that investors are pessimistic about their future sales growth and profitability.
The champ’s big comeback: Why beaten-down value stocks are poised to thrive|Shawn Tully|August 18, 2020|Fortune
Corelogic, the financial data service, has made a baseline forecast that some three million homeowners will fall behind on their mortgage payments—and their pessimistic forecast predicts more than 12 million delinquent borrowers.
Trump is making home loans riskier during a housing crisis|Tim Fernholz|July 28, 2020|Quartz
Assuming the most pessimistic scenario — that life requires stars to have at least as much metal as the sun — eliminates about two-thirds of the galaxy’s stars.
Self-destructive civilizations may doom our search for alien intelligence|Tom Siegfried|July 6, 2020|Science News
This message will resonate with Americans who are feeling pessimistic due to everything that has unfolded in 2020.
Ecommerce marketing this Independence Day will be tricky: Four must dos|Evelyn Johnson|June 23, 2020|Search Engine Watch
“I fall very much on the pessimistic spectrum, in the sense that I get very confused about it,” she says.
Confessions of a Rom-Com Writer: Liz Tuccillo Talks ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Take Care,’ and More|Kevin Fallon|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf|Louisa Treger|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But at the time I was so pessimistic that the notion of staying and fighting just seemed like an empty gesture.
Can Carl Hiaasen Save Florida?|Malcolm Jones|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hoffman plays Jon Savage, the sarcastic and pessimistic brother (and confidant) to his sister, Wendy.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Best Performances: ‘Boogie Nights,’ ‘Capote,’ and More|Marlow Stern|February 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She sounded “pessimistic” he said and did not believe that she would come out of jail before the February Games.
Why Is Putin Pardoning His Political Enemies?|Anna Nemtsova|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But most librarians have not accepted this pessimistic negative.
Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913|Various
I am glad to say the event proved that my pessimistic friend was by far too pessimistic.
France and the Republic|William Henry Hurlbert
In National Life and Character, a pessimistic though intellectually stimulating book.
The Group Mind|William McDougall
Instead of being glum and pessimistic and foreboding, he was chipper and enthusiastic.
Masters of Space|Edward Elmer Smith
But this pessimistic view results from our limited capacity to perceive the light that is there.
Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon|Walter Adeney
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