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| Main Entry: |
pessimistic
 [pes-uh-mis-tik] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expecting bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, fatalistic, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried |
| Antonyms: | confident, optimistic, trusting |
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Example Sentences
- Let's not get all fatalistic about the small short-term price elasticity of gas.
- But the tone is of fatalistic humour, not anguished exasperation.
- Fatalistic preaching comes easily from the sources of the the wars of the twentieth century.
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