"glass-half-empty" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "glass-half-full"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the expression \"Is the glass half empty or half full?\", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.",
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      "expansion": "glass-half-empty (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Laura Klepacki, Avon: Building The World's Premier Company For Women",
          "text": "Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”",
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        "(idiomatic, of a person) pessimistic"
      ],
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        "of a person"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "glass half empty"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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  "word": "glass-half-empty"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "glass-half-full"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the expression \"Is the glass half empty or half full?\", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
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      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Laura Klepacki, Avon: Building The World's Premier Company For Women",
          "text": "Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pessimistic"
      ],
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        [
          "pessimistic",
          "pessimistic"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, of a person) pessimistic"
      ],
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        "of a person"
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "glass half empty"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glass-half-empty"
}