"pessimistic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pessimistic.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more pessimistic [comparative], most pessimistic [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪstɪk Etymology: pessimist + -ic Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pessimist|ic}} pessimist + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} pessimistic (comparative more pessimistic, superlative most pessimistic)
  1. Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst. Categories (topical): Personality Translations (marked by pessimism and little hopefulness): مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim) (Arabic), հոռետեսական (hoṙetesakan) (Armenian), песімісты́чны (pjesimistýčny) (Belarusian), песимисти́чен (pesimistíčen) (Bulgarian), pessimista (Catalan), 悲觀 (Chinese Cantonese), 悲观 (bei¹ gun¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 悲觀的 (Chinese Mandarin), 悲观的 (bēiguān de) (Chinese Mandarin), pesimistický (Czech), pessimistisk (Danish), pessimistinen (Finnish), synkkä (Finnish), pessimiste (French), pesimista (Galician), pessimistisch (German), πεσιμιστικός (pesimistikós) (Greek), απαισιόδοξος (apaisiódoxos) (Greek), pesszimisztikus (Hungarian), pesszimista (Hungarian), svartsýnn (Icelandic), bölsýnn (Icelandic), pesimistis (Indonesian), pessimista (Italian), pessimistico (Italian), 悲観的 (hikanteki) (alt: ひかんてき) (Japanese), 비관적 (bigwanjeok) (Korean), (ngākau) hākerekere (Maori), pessimistisk (Norwegian), dunkelsiedich (Plautdietsch), pesymistyczny (Polish), pessimista (Portuguese), пессимисти́чный (pessimistíčnyj) (Russian), песимистичан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pesimističan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pesimistický (Slovak), pesimista (Spanish), agorero (Spanish), pessimistisk (Swedish), มองโลกในแง่ร้าย (Thai), pesimist (Turkish), karamsar (Turkish), песимісти́чний (pesymistýčnyj) (Ukrainian), badimik (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-pessimistic-en-adj-F3Imxs0x Disambiguation of Personality: 35 22 43 Disambiguation of 'marked by pessimism and little hopefulness': 87 4 9
  2. Pertaining to the worst-case scenario. Categories (topical): Personality
    Sense id: en-pessimistic-en-adj-03IPVPyt Disambiguation of Personality: 35 22 43
  3. (computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it. Categories (topical): Computing, Personality
    Sense id: en-pessimistic-en-adj-8I57ZNuM Disambiguation of Personality: 35 22 43 Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ic Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 21 55 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ic: 25 32 43 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pessimistic time Related terms: pessimal, pessimism, pessimist Translations (always expecting the worst): مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim) (Arabic), հոռետեսական (hoṙetesakan) (Armenian), pessimista (Catalan), 悲觀的 (Chinese Mandarin), 悲观的 (bēiguān de) (Chinese Mandarin), pessimistinen (Finnish), synkkämielinen (Finnish), pessimiste (French), pesimista (Galician), pessimistisch (German), pesszimista (Hungarian), borúlátó (Hungarian), pesimistis (Indonesian), 悲観的 (hikanteki) (alt: ひかんてき) (Japanese), pessimistisk (Norwegian), بدبین (Persian), بد بینانه (Persian), dunkelsiedich (Plautdietsch), pessimista (Portuguese), пессимисти́чный (pessimistíčnyj) (Russian), песимистичан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pesimističan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pesimista (Spanish), pessimistisk (Swedish), มองโลกในแง่ร้าย (Thai), kötümser (Turkish), badimik (Volapük)
Disambiguation of 'always expecting the worst': 44 52 4

Alternative forms

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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mutašāʔim",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "مُتَشَائِم"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "hoṙetesakan",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "հոռետեսական"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjesimistýčny",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "песімісты́чны"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pesimistíčen",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "песимисти́чен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "悲觀"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "bei¹ gun¹",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "悲观"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "悲觀的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bēiguān de",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "悲观的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimistický"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "synkkä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "pesimistikós",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "πεσιμιστικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apaisiódoxos",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "απαισιόδοξος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesszimisztikus"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesszimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "svartsýnn"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "bölsýnn"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimistis"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひかんてき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hikanteki",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "悲観的"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "bigwanjeok",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "비관적"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "(ngākau) hākerekere"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "dunkelsiedich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesymistyczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pessimistíčnyj",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "пессимисти́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "песимистичан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pesimističan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimistický"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "agorero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pessimistisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "มองโลกในแง่ร้าย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "pesimist"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "karamsar"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "pesymistýčnyj",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "песимісти́чний"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "marked by pessimism and little hopefulness",
      "word": "badimik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mutašāʔim",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "مُتَشَائِم"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "hoṙetesakan",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "հոռետեսական"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "悲觀的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bēiguān de",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "悲观的"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimistinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "synkkämielinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimiste"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pesimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimistisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pesszimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "borúlátó"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pesimistis"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ひかんてき",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hikanteki",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "悲観的"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimistisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "بدبین"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "بد بینانه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "dunkelsiedich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pessimistíčnyj",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "пессимисти́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "песимистичан"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "pesimističan"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pesimista"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "pessimistisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "มองโลกในแง่ร้าย"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "kötümser"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "always expecting the worst",
      "word": "badimik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pessimistic"
}

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