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Meaning of Pessimist | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

ˈpɛsɪmɪst

Definitions

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

Equivalents

العربية المتشائم متشائم

Azərbaycanca bədbin

Български песимист

Català pessimista

Čeština pesimista škarohlíd

Dansk sortseer

Deutsch Pessimist Pessimistin Schwarzmaler Schwarzseher Unke

Ελληνικά απαισιόδοξος απαισιόδοξος πεσιμιστής

Esperanto nigravidulo pesimisto

Español agorero pesimista

Suomi pessimisti

Français pessimiste

Galego pesimista

Magyar pesszimista

Հայերեն հոռետես

Bahasa Indonesia pesimis

Italiano pessimista

日本語ペシミスト厭世家悲観主義者悲観論者

한국어 염세가

Kurdî bedbîn pesîmîst pessîmîst

Македонски песимист

Nederlands doemdenker pessimist zwartdenker

Polski czarnowidz pesymista pesymistka

Português pessimista

Română pesimist pesimistă

Русский пессими́ст пессими́стка

Svenska pessimist

తెలుగు నిరాశావాది

Türkçe bedbin bedbin karamsar kötümser pesimist

Українська песимі́ст

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.”

CEFR level

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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