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pessimistic adjective gloomy, dark, despairing, bleak, resigned, sad, depressed, cynical, hopeless, melancholy, glum, dejected, foreboding, despondent, morose, fatalistic, distrustful, downhearted, misanthropic << OPPOSITE optimistic Translations |
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Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door. He looks upon life and all its affairs with the jaundiced eye of a pessimistic German philosopher. With all its gifts and opportunities it was a melancholy life-- melancholy with something not altogether explained by the somewhat pessimistic philosophy exposed in the Journal, nor by the consumptive tendency of Amiel's physical constitution, causing him from a very early date to be much preoccupied with the effort to reconcile himself with the prospect of death, and reinforcing the far from sanguine temperament of one intellectually also a poitrinaire. |
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