POLLYANNAISM Antonyms

• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

• 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

• freeing from false belief or illusions

• doubt about someone's honesty

• the trait of not trusting others

• regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or 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

• 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

• the feeling that things will turn out badly

• a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things

• doubt about the truth of something

• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge