Definition of Pessimistic

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Definition of Pessimistic
	Pessimistic Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. Related Definitions: By, Characterized, Foreboding, Gloomy, Of, Or, Pertaining, Pessimism, To

Pessimistic Quotations

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
Charles R. Swindoll

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
Carl Rogers

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.
Paul Hawken

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Naguib Mahfouz

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
Bo Bennett

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.
Jared Diamond

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
Titus Livius

I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live.
Claude Chabrol

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
Karel Reisz

Pessimistic Translations

pessimistic in Dutch is pessimistisch, zwaarhoofdig
pessimistic in German is pessimistisch
pessimistic in Italian is pessimistico
pessimistic in Spanish is pesimista

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