Crossword-Solution: PESSIMISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pessimism | n. | The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism. |
| Pessimism | n. | A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PESSIMISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bad ideas? | 1 answer |
| Eeyore's attitude | 1 answer |
| Gloomy view of life | 1 answer |
| It "never won any battle," according to Eisenhower | 1 answer |
| tendency to expect the worst in all things | 1 answer |
| the feeling that things will turn out badly | 1 answer |
| *Negative attitude | 2 answers |
| defeatism | 20 answers |
| disbelief | 31 answers |
| hopelessness | 32 answers |
| desperation | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PESSIMISM (5)
Afro-Americans viewed the war both with more enthusiasm and with more pessimism than they had felt at the outbreak of the First World War.
The black-letter type, with rubricated initials, signified a philosophic pessimism enlightened by the conviction that in duty one might find, after all, an excuse for life and a hope for humanity.
Her pessimism provoked me and I pretended to have the best hopes; I went so far as to say that I had a distinct presentiment that I should succeed.
For this sickness of pessimism, caused by drink, one must drink further in quest of the anodyne that John Barleycorn promises but never delivers.
The pessimism of the subject attracted his youth; and he believed that the world he was about to enter was a place of pitiless woe and of darkness.
Quotes with PESSIMISM (3)
Life... as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.
Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2002–2009).