pessimist

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• /ˈpɛsɪmɪst/
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From French pessimiste, from Latin pessimus (“worst”) + -ist.

72 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مُتَشَائِم (mutašāʔim) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Armenian: հոռետես (hoṙetes) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Azerbaijani: bədbin — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Azerbaijani: bədbin adam — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Belarusian: песіміст (pjesimist) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Bulgarian: песимист (pesimist) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Catalan: pessimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Chinese Mandarin: 悲觀主義者 /悲观主义者 (bēiguānzhǔyìzhě) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Corsican: pessimistu — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Czech: pesimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Czech: škarohlíd — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Danish: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Danish: sortseer — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Dutch: zwartdenker — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Dutch: doemdenker — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Dutch: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Esperanto: pesimisto — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Esperanto: pesimistino — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Esperanto: nigravidulo — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Estonian: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Finnish: pessimisti — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• French: pessimiste — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Galician: pesimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• German: Pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• German: Pessimistin — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Greek: απαισιόδοξος (apaisiódoxos) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Hebrew: פסימיסט — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Hungarian: pesszimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Icelandic: svartsýnismaður — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Ido: pesimisto — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Indonesian: pesimis — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Irish: duarcán — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Italian: pessimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Japanese: 悲観主義者 (hikanshugisha) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Japanese: 厭世家 (enseika) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Japanese: ペシミスト (peshimisuto) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Korean: 염세가 (yeomsega) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Kyrgyz: пессимист (pessimist) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Macedonian: песимист (pesimist) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Manx: doo-aignagh — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Norman: pessimiste — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Norwegian Bokmål: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Polish: pesymista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Polish: pesymistka — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Polish: czarnowidz — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Portuguese: pessimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Romanian: pesimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Romanian: pesimistă — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Romansh: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Romansh: pessimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Russian: пессими́ст (pessimíst) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Russian: пессими́стка (pessimístka) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Serbo-Croatian: песѝмист — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Serbo-Croatian: pesìmist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Slovak: pesimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Slovene: pesimíst — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Spanish: pesimista — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Spanish: agorero — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Swedish: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Telugu: నిరాశావాది (nirāśāvādi) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Tibetan: ཡིད་ཆད་རིང་ལུགས་པ (yid chad ring lugs pa) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Turkish: pesimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Turkish: kötümser — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Turkish: karamsar — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Turkish: bedbin — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Ukrainian: песимі́ст (pesymíst) — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Uzbek: pessimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Volapük: badiman — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Volapük: hibadiman — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Volapük: jibadiman — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome
• Welsh: pesimist — someone who habitually expects the worst outcome