OVEROPTIMISTIC Antonyms

• believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• lacking in resolution

• open to doubt or suspicion

• fraught with uncertainty or doubt

• unsettled in mind or opinion

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

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• 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

• expecting the worst possible outcome

• aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are

• of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism

• representing what is real; not abstract or ideal

• denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion

• marked by or given to doubt