pessimist

/ˈpɛsɪmɪst/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

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noun

"I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him."
"We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future."

From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist.

pessimists (plural)

Afropessimist cyberpessimist heteropessimist pessoptimist technopessimist

pessimism pessimistic

optimist

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The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/.

What does pessimist mean?

Where does pessimist come from?

From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist.

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