Pessimist

Definitions

Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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