How do you use Pessimist in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like skeptic or sceptic, plus the exact meaning.
Pessimist meaning
Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
Using Pessimist
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.
- Useful related words include: skeptic, sceptic, doubter, optimist.
- In the example corpus, pessimist often appears in combinations such as: pessimist and, is pessimist, and pessimist.
Context around Pessimist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pessimist
- In this selection, "pessimist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, proclaimed, sack, sour, lives, seems and stereotype stand out and add context to how "pessimist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a paid pessimist and a sour pessimist seems to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pessimist" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pessimist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are you an optimist or pessimist? (6 words)
Whatever you do, never be a pessimist or a cynic. (10 words)
That’s not me being overly dramatic or a sad-sack pessimist. (12 words)
Samet is investigated for not “respecting distance” with Sevin and her classmates, a somewhat ironic charge given that Samet, a sour pessimist, seems to be keeping himself at a distance to most everything. (33 words)
He used to joke that you should do compressions to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" if you were an optimist and Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" if you were a pessimist. (33 words)
The bottom line is that the pessimist can be right in the short-term but in the long-term optimism is by far a better bet in most matters of importance. (31 words)
Are you an optimist or pessimist? (6 words)
Example sentences (18)
Are you an optimist or pessimist?
She is a pessimist who works from a distrustful posture, and Loveland has paid the price during her tenure as mayor.
Tamahiko Shima, a self-proclaimed pessimist, lives alone in the mountains of Chiba after losing his mother and the use of his right hand in a car accident.
That’s not me being overly dramatic or a sad-sack pessimist.
This was less because he is a prophet and more because he is a pessimist.
Golda Meir said you can’t be a Zionist and a pessimist.
Samet is investigated for not “respecting distance” with Sevin and her classmates, a somewhat ironic charge given that Samet, a sour pessimist, seems to be keeping himself at a distance to most everything.
They merely ventilate a prejudice rooted in the Afro-pessimist stereotype to the effect that Africans are predisposed to act undemocratically.
At the very best, a short-term pessimist and long-term optimist.
Frustration and impatience are sins, a true Muslim can never be pessimist and egoist as it is said “do not despair of the mercy of Allah.
The bottom line is that the pessimist can be right in the short-term but in the long-term optimism is by far a better bet in most matters of importance.
Whatever you do, never be a pessimist or a cynic.
He used to joke that you should do compressions to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" if you were an optimist and Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" if you were a pessimist.
It reminds me of an old joke about an optimist, a pessimist, and an engineer.
Reflecting on his 36 years as an advisor, Ginsburg tries to soften the blow of suggesting a prenup by telling lovebirds, "I'm a paid pessimist.
In this sense it could be said that the pessimist views history as ironic; while seemingly getting better, it is mostly in fact not improving at all, or getting worse.
The economist Nouriel Roubini was largely dismissed as a pessimist, for his dire but accurate predictions of a coming global financial crisis, in 2006.
The philosophical pessimist does not deny that certain areas like science can "progress" but they deny that this has resulted in an overall improvement of the human condition.
Common combinations with pessimist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pessimist and 3×
- is pessimist 2×
- and pessimist 2×
- be pessimist 2×
- the pessimist 2×