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pessimistic
expecting that bad things will happen, or that someone will be unsuccessful:
• He was pessimistic about the team’s chances of winning the championship. • a pessimistic view of human nature
downbeat
having an attitude that is not hopeful and not expecting success, or not expecting the situation to improve, especially the economic or political situation:
• The overall mood in the stockmarket is decidedly downbeat. • The chairman made some downbeat remarks about the company’s sales performance. • His assessment of the UK’s economic prospects is generally downbeat.
gloomy
not having much hope for the future:
• Environmental groups are gloomy about the future of our planet. • The article painted a gloomy picture of the human rights situation in Burma.
negative
considering only the bad qualities of a situation, person etc, and not the good ones:
• His negative attitude towards work was affecting his colleagues. • Why are you always so negative?
fear the worst
formal to expect a situation to have the worst possible result, because you know how bad the situation could be:
• I hadn’t heard any news from her for over a week, and I was starting to fear the worst.
sb’s glass is half empty
informal used about people who only see the bad qualities of a situation, even when other people might see better qualities in the same situation:
• He’s one of those people whose glass is always half empty.
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adj. VERBS be, feel, look, prove, seem, sound These figures look quite pessimistic. | become | remain ADV. deeply, extremely, terribly, very | increasingly | rather, somewhat | unduly, unnecessarily His predictions proved unduly pessimistic. | generally PREP. about I am deeply pessimistic about the future.
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