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Definition
expecting that things will turn out badly; or focusing on the bad part of things
- I set the dials at 1-1-7 and pushed pessimistically at the buttons.
- I realized that I was growing more pessimistic, more bitter, more frantic with each passing day.
- On and on I went, the repetition of the task helping to pass the dreary time, but also promoting a sense of pessimism.
- Many people expressed the pessimistic opinion that the government had run out of ammunition.
- But Hamid was pessimistic.
There are no more uses of "pessimistic" in Not Without My Daughter.
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