pessimistic

About 2.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   a pessimistic view of the future

2. adjective Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.

   a pessimistic estimate

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

   pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

Similar words

discouraged disheartened bearish demoralized grim gloomy sombre passive bleak negative

Often followed by

about view and in outlook as than views conclusion

Word family

pessimistically