PESSIMISTS Synonyms

• affected or marked by low spirits

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• without or almost without hope

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• lacking in resolution

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• moody and melancholic

• showing a brooding ill humor

• someone subject to melancholia

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• showing a brooding ill humor

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

• someone who is critical of the motives of others

• a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control

• someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions

• someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

• someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something

• of or relating to fatalism

• anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

• someone who dislikes people in general