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

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  1. pessimistic: Legal dictionary

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  1. pessimistic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. pessimistic: Medical dictionary

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  1. pessimistic: Urban Dictionary

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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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