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Pessimistic

//ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.

    "a pessimistic view of the future"

  2. 2
    Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.

    "a pessimistic estimate"

  3. 3
    Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.

    "pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking"

Adjective
  1. 1
    expecting the worst possible outcome wordnet

Etymology

From pessimist + -ic.

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