What are the antonyms for PESSIMIST?
- Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, ideologue, positivist, romantic, romanticist, sentimentalist, utopian, visionary, Idealizer, Pollyanna, optimist.
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Synonyms for PESSIMIST
- killjoy,
- chicken heart,
- nihilist,
- negative,
- detraction,
- prophet of doom/disaster,
- wimp,
- whiner,
- heretic,
- overestimation,
- sourpuss,
- grouch,
- cassandra,
- defeatist,
- faint-of-heart,
- skulker,
- alarmist,
- party pooper,
- Heathens,
- hope,
- infidel,
- despondency,
- job's comforter,
- scoffer,
- scaremonger,
- cynic,
- GRINCH,
- fussbudget,
- despair,
- recreants,
- mockers,
- invertebrate,
- Mopus,
- Gloomy Gus,
- dampener,
- mope,
- disbelievers,
- fraidy cat,
- misogamist,
- moaners,
- melancholic,
- negativist,
- optimism,
- doubter,
- jellyfishes,
- yellow belly,
- coward,
- doom merchant,
- modesty,
- pessimist,
- flouter,
- prophet of doom,
- underestimation,
- downer,
- rationalist,
- zombie,
- Runagate,
- vanity,
- downbeat,
- agnostic,
- fraidy-cat,
- whiners,
- materialists,
- Profaner,
- misery,
- atheist,
- depression,
- calamity howler,
- Rejecter,
- stick in the mud,
- wet blanket,
- sad,
- failure,
- chicken liver,
- dark horse,
- depreciator,
- cynical,
- dissenter,
- poltroon,
- malcontent,
- Self-tormentor,
- Seek-sorrow,
- partypooper,
- jellyfish,
- desperation,
- satirist,
- scaredy cat,
- Refuser,
- exaggeration,
- heathen,
- picklepuss,
- misbeliever,
- doomsdayer,
- sneerers,
- lost soul,
- Doomster,
- voice of doom,
- egotist,
- spoilsport,
- moaner,
- crepehanger,
- husk,
- terrorist,
- Doubting Thomas,
- worrier,
- gloomy,
- damper,
- lily liver,
- disbeliever,
- doomsayer,
- fraidy-cats,
- worrywart,
- pessimistic,
- undervaluing,
- uncheerful,
- scaremongers,
- chicken little,
- complainer,
- nihilistic,
- egoist,
- misanthrope,
- a cold fish,
- damp,
- materialist,
- washout,
- hopelessness,
- scoffers,
- misanthropist,
- realist,
- fugitive,
- croaker,
- dampeners,
- dejection,
- depreciation,
- denier,
- faintheart,
- sceptic,
- nonbeliever,
- skeptic,
- naysayer,
- sneerer,
- unbeliever,
- hypochondriac,
- skulkers,
- rationalists,
- dismal,
- white liver,
- Invertebrates,
- weakling,
- grump,
- pessimism,
- satirists,
- shirker.
Usage Examples for PESSIMIST
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The pessimist gave him up in despair; while the optimist, smilingly confident that everything would come out all right in the end, also turned aside and went his buoyant way to more pleasing themes. - "The Marrow of Tradition" by Charles W. Chesnutt
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Cousin Gustus is an expert pessimist. - "This Is the End" by Stella Benson
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I'm not a pessimist- not a bit- but I'm telling you it's a physical impossibility for a man to take the fire of four revolvers in the hands of four men like those four men, at arm's length, and live. - "Nan of Music Mountain" by Frank H. Spearman
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At first sight it would seem that the pessimist encourages improvement. - "The Defendant" by G.K. Chesterton
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The pessimist replied: " Yes, very good place, but somehow or other this halo don't fit my head exactly." - "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie" by Andrew Carnegie
