Pessimist

//ˈpɛsɪmɪst//

"Pessimist" in a Sentence (12 examples)

The optimist looks into a mirror and becomes more optimistic, the pessimist more pessimistic.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

The student is optimistic, but his advisor is a pessimist.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.

Schopenhauer was a ferocious pessimist.

Don't be such a pessimist.

It's better to be an optimist and be wrong than to be a pessimist and be right.

No one wants to kiss a pessimist.

You're such a pessimist.

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I will not marry a pessimist, a born loser, a fellow who has no fight in him.

We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.

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