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Meaning of glass-half-empty | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

pessimistic

idiomatic, not-comparable

Examples

“Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.””

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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