Usually means: Expects the worst, often negative.
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  1. pessimist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pessimist: Merriam-Webster
  3. pessimist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pessimist: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pessimist: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pessimist, pessimist: Wordnik
  7. pessimist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pessimist: Wiktionary
  9. pessimist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pessimist: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. pessimist: Dictionary.com
  12. pessimist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Pessimist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Pessimist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. pessimist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. pessimist: Rhymezone
  17. Pessimist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pessimist: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pessimist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pessimist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Pessimist: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. pessimist: Legal dictionary

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  1. pessimist: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pessimist: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pessimist: Medical dictionary

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noun:  Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things.

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