Usually means: Expecting the worst; negative outlook.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pessimistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pessimistic: Merriam-Webster
  3. pessimistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pessimistic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pessimistic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pessimistic, pessimistic: Wordnik
  7. pessimistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pessimistic: Wiktionary
  9. pessimistic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pessimistic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pessimistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pessimistic: Dictionary.com
  13. pessimistic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Pessimistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pessimistic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pessimistic: Rhymezone
  17. Pessimistic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. pessimistic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. pessimistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pessimistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pessimistic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pessimistic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pessimistic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. pessimistic: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pessimistic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pessimistically as well.)

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adjective:  Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
adjective:  Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
adjective:  (computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.

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