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1 pessimist -- rank: 1000

pessimist definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a person ... Merriam Webster's noun see pessimism Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pessimist Pes"si*mist, n. [L. pessimus worst: cf. F. pessimiste ... on the dark side of things. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pessimist Pes"si*mist, Pessimistic Pes`si*mis"tic, a. (Metaph ... pessimistic doubt.'' --Encyc. Brit. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (pessimists) A pessimist is someone who thinks that bad things are going to happen. I'm a natural pessimist; I usually expect the worst... ? optimist N-COUNT Foolish Dictionary ...

2 optimist -- rank: 446

... person disposed to take a favorable view of things [ant: pessimist] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Optimist (Club) Date: 1911 a ... bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (optimists) An optimist is someone who ... reckon house prices will move up with inflation this year. ? pessimist N-COUNT Moby Thesaurus Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, aspirant, aspirer, chiliast ...

3 pessimistic -- rank: 352

... gloomy Synonyms: see cynical • pessimistically adverb Webster's 1913 Dictionary Pessimist Pes"si*mist, Pessimistic Pes`si*mis"tic, a. (Metaph ... inauspicious, joyless, languishing, low, low-spirited, melancholy, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, pessimist, pining, sad, spiritless, subdued, suicidal, uncheerful, unhappy, weary of life ...

4 pessimism -- rank: 352

... evil b. the doctrine that evil overbalances happiness in life • pessimist noun Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 a tendency to take ... or that all things tend to evil (opp. OPTIMISM). Derivatives: pessimist n. pessimistic adj. pessimistically adv. Etymology: L pessimus worst, after ...

5 Arthur Schopenhauer -- rank: 223

... Schopenhauer definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860) [syn: Schopenhauer, Arthur Schopenhauer]

6 killjoy -- rank: 223

... damper, defeatist, gloomy Gus, grouch, grump, malcontent, malist, negativist, nihilist, pessimist, prophet of doom, retreatist, seek-sorrow, sourpuss, spoilsport, wet blanket ...

7 Misery -- rank: 223

... malcontent, melancholia, melancholy, mirthlessness, misfortune, ordeal, pain, pang, passion, penury, pessimist, pining, poverty, privation, prophet of doom, prostration, sadness, sordidness, sorrow ...

8 wet blanket -- rank: 223

... headache, hook-and-ladder, humdrum, killjoy, ladder pipe, malcontent, nuisance, pessimist, pest, pill, proser, pumper, snorkel, soda, sourpuss, spoilsport, sprinkler, sprinkler ...

9 downbeat -- rank: 223

... cycle, cynical, defeatist, diastole, dismal, gloomy, negative, negativistic, nihilistic, offbeat, pessimist, pessimistic, pulsation, pulse, revolution, rotation, round, series, spell, systole, thesis ...

10 defeatist -- rank: 223

... dismal, downbeat, gloomy, killjoy, malist, negative, negativist, negativistic, nihilist, nihilistic, pessimist, pessimistic, prophet of doom, retreatist, seek-sorrow, uncheerful, worrywart

11 Dismal -- rank: 223

... oppressive, painful, pale, pallid, pathetic, pearl, pearl-gray, pearly, pedestrian, pessimist, pessimistic, piteous, pitiable, plodding, poignant, pointless, poky, ponderous, regrettable, rueful ...

12 Damper -- rank: 223

... holdback, hushcloth, killjoy, lifter, martingale, muffle, muffler, mute, muzzle, pelham, pessimist, poker, pothook, quietener, remora, salamander, scotch, sea anchor, shackle, silence ...

13 Damp -- rank: 223

... neutralize, normalize, obtund, offset, oppose, oppress, out, paddle, palliate, pare, pessimist, play down, pour water on, press down, puff of smoke ...

14 Gloomy -- rank: 223

... nubilous, obscure, of evil portent, ominous, oppressed, oppressive, overcast, overclouded, pessimist, pessimistic, portending, portentous, sad, saturnine, shaded, shadowy, shady, sinister, solemn ...

15 SIN -- rank: 223

... time the same thought is back of much of the pessimist idea that the world itself is like a sinking ship ...