pessimist

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈpɛsɪmɪst/

Definition of pessimist

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
    “I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.”
    “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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Etymology

From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist.

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