Crossword-Solution: PESSIMISTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pessimistic | a. | Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PESSIMISTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Seeing the glass half-empty | 1 answer |
| unhopeful | 38 answers |
| Bearish | 45 answers |
| humourless | 46 answers |
| joyless | 50 answers |
| dispirited | 51 answers |
| Cheerless | 55 answers |
| Rueful | 58 answers |
| Dejected | 65 answers |
| Dreary | 68 answers |
| Downcast | 68 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Gloomy | 89 answers |
| Down | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PESSIMISTIC (5)
LESK contended that BESSER was unnecessarily pessimistic about multimedia images, because people are accustomed to low-quality images, particularly from video.
Was there any place to play? Were there any boys next door? Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
But though he had occasional flashes of humor, his ordinary demeanor was characterized by a mild cynicism, which, with his gloomy pessimistic philosophy, so foreign to the temperament that should accompany his physical type, could only be accounted for upon the hypothesis of some secret sorrow such as I have suggested.
Mrs MacNab, therefore (being of a pessimistic turn), is quite sure it is something dreadful, and probably connected with dynamite.
But I suppose this pessimistic view is natural if you eat three meals a day with a tableful of melancholics.
Quotes with PESSIMISTIC (3)
Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.
This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying." Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen.""Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.
It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. There…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).