OPTIMISM Antonyms

• a cynical feeling of distrust

• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

• the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

• the expression of opposition and disapproval

• the act of discouraging

• freeing from false belief or illusions

• the state of being unsure of something

• uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

• consider unlikely

• lack confidence in

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• the character of the negative electric pole

• characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands

• an amount less than zero

• (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond

• acceptance of despair

• the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)

• a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign