pessimist
Example Sentences
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No wonder that in a nation of pessimists, they are the optimists.
They feel the same forces as the pessimists—housing and grocery prices are rising for many of them, too.
And the pessimists fear entry-level knowledge workers will become obsolete altogether.
She has defied pessimists to be a hit with voters, especially young ones, with fans lapping up everything from her handbag to her jamming to a K-pop song with South Korea's president.
From Barron's
One I heard while working as a journalist in Moscow in the early 1980s: “A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
