pessimisticadjective
uk/ˌpes.ɪˈmɪs.tɪk/us/ˌpes.əˈmɪs.tɪk/B2 thinking that bad things are more likely to happen or emphasizing the bad part of a situation:
The tone of the meeting was very pessimistic.
The doctors are pessimistic (= not hopeful) about his chances of recovery.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- lose
- negative
- negativity
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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pessimistically
adverb uk/ˌpes.ɪˈmɪs.tɪ.kəl.i/us/ˌpes.əˈmɪs.tɪ.kəl.i/