Expecting the worst

Usage examples of pessimistic.

The pessimistic Ascenders dourly pursued an otherworldly Goal they were assured of never reaching, and the optimistic Descenders giddily embraced a this-worldly creation whose Source they celebrated but never experienced.

Narcissists are atrabilious, infinitely pessimistic, bad-tempered, paranoid and sadistic in an absent-minded and indifferent manner.

The extreme Left still tends to be defeatist, except as regards the Russian front, and at each stage of the African campaign its press has clung almost desperately to a pessimistic interpretation of events.

This Bali Hai had been built by Canadians, who seemed always to have an uncanny sense of which Florida beach was going to become popular next, but it was run by a pessimistic married couple from Maine who had spent one winter too many among the snowdrifts of that igloo.

Bienville, the brother, also deserves remembrance both in France and America--dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin Island, that were to bring forth millionfold, though they have not yet entirely crowded out the cypress and the palmetto, and the fleur-de-lis that still grows wild and flowers brilliantly at certain seasons.

TARSAM: a successful but pessimistic sheep farmer who dwells in the Tarlagar backcountry nigh the Windfangs foothills, and habitually drinks at the Glory of Aglirta tavern.

Meiji and early Taisho periods were pessimistic or skeptical about the values of a modernized Japan.

I entirely grant you that those two old sinners by this time were taking very pessimistic and very melancholy views of human nature, and, therefore, of every human being, young and old.

To return to the assessments of Western intelligence agencies, if Saddam began a crash program in 1998, as recent sources have indicated, the most pessimistic assessments suggest he could have a nuclear weapon by 2004, while the more optimistic ones predict that he will have one by 2008.

While hoping that following the ion trails back the way they had come might result in discovering the location of the Hive homeworld, the more pessimistic of both species recognized that the trails might dwindle to nothing considering the period of time involved - and the effort would be wasted.

Most people found the standard personality emulation somewhat pessimistic for their tastes, and purchased an aftermarket buckley with a personality overlay more compatible with their own preferences.

To receive this help the person must go with the pessimistic as- sumption that he is guilty, even though his own assessment of himself is one of innocence.

And he was not, as some of the more pessimistic exobiologists had predicted, either shocked or nauseated.

Pessimistic explanatory style is a risk factor for physical illness: A thirty-five-year longitudinal study.

Brenna did a quick mental inventory of her freezer, pessimistic about her chances of finding a frozen dinner there.