Crossword-Solution: PESSIMIST 9 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Pessimist n. One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed
to optimist.
Pessimist n. One who looks on the dark side of things.
Pessimist a. Alt. of Pessimistic

We have 43 clues for the answer “PESSIMIST”

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ONE looking on dark side 1 answer
He views with alarm. 1 answer
Eeyore, for one 2 answers
Glass-half-empty sort 2 answers
fatalist 3 answers
Doomsayer 3 answers
Cynical one 3 answers
No-hoper 3 answers
Glass-half-empty type 3 answers
HEADSHAKER 5 answers
Worrywart 7 answers
Chicken Little 11 answers
A PERSON WHO EXPECTS THE WORST 11 answers
misanthropist 11 answers
disparager 13 answers
Scaremonger 14 answers
Doubting Thomas 14 answers
DISCOURAGING person 15 answers
DESPONDENT person 17 answers
Sceptic 17 answers
GLOOMY person 18 answers
terrorist 18 answers
Oppressor 18 answers
Defeatist 18 answers
Dark Horse 19 answers
Naysayer 20 answers
Non-believer 20 answers
ALARMIST 20 answers
intimidator 21 answers
disbeliever 21 answers
Detractor. 23 answers
doomster 24 answers
doom merchant 25 answers
cynic 25 answers
persecutor 28 answers
wet blanket 30 answers
Despot 31 answers
agnostic 34 answers
Tyrant 36 answers
Doubter 37 answers
Autocrat 39 answers
Dictator 40 answers
Quitter 46 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with PESSIMIST (5)

The joy was in the song, not in me! Last week was black enough for me to satisfy the most exacting pessimist." "I wish you might have seen the figure you cut! That fine team, flower bedecked, and the continuous concert!" "But I did!" cried Laddie.
Laddie Gene Stratton-Porter 2008
But, whatever else he may be, a pessimist is depressing, and it was, therefore, a great pleasure to me to have a friend who was an out-and-out optimist.
The Magic Egg and Other Stories Frank Stockton 2008
Evidently they have spied our sail, and guess that we do not belong to their fleet.” “They probably want to ask the way to the mainland themselves,” said Juag, who was nothing if not a pessimist.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1996
For the space of about thirty seconds, a half-naked, betel-chewing pessimist stood upon the bank of the tropical river, on the edge of the still and immense forests; a man angry, powerless, empty-handed, with a cry of bitter discontent ready on his lips; a cry that, had it come out, would have rung through the virgin solitudes of the woods, as true, as great, as profound, as any philosophical shriek that ever came from the depths of an easy-chair to disturb the impure wilderness of chimneys and roofs.
An Outcast of the Islands Joseph Conrad 2006
Nor could the pessimist shake his surety of the three hundred thousand of Alaskan gold he as going to shake out of the moss-roots.
The Red One Jack London 2014

Quotes with PESSIMIST (3)

Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.
H.P. Lovecraft
The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set …
Viktor E. Frankl Man's Search for Meaning
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, WP.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).