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• IPA: /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/

名詞

pessimist (plural pessimists)

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

   Antonym: optimist

   Hyponyms: bear (in finance), declinist

   • 1940 September 29, “Letters Reveal Ordeals in France”, in The New York Times, page 12:

     I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.

   • 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238:

     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.

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