pessimist

pronunciation

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  • Noun:
    a person who expects the worst

Word Origin

pessimist (n.)
1820, "one who habitually expects the worst" (Knowles' dictionary, 1835, defines it as "A universal complainer"), from 19c. French pessimiste (see pessimism).

Antonym

Example

1. Some pessimist think that this can only lead to humiliation .
2. Idealist and pessimist tribes gather around the future of machine translation .
3. Why are you always a pessimist ?
4. I 've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist .
5. There was the civil-rights movement , the feminist movement . Why not the pessimist 's movement ?

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