pessimistic
How to pronounce pessimistic:
Synonyms for pessimistic:
bearish
bleak
cynical
dark
defeatist
dejected
demoralised
depressed
depressing
despairing
desperate
despondent
discouraged
discouraging
disheartened
distrustful
downbeat
downhearted
fatalistic
foreboding
gloomy
glum
grim
hopeless
melancholy
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Antonyms for pessimistic:
above
airy
animated
as happy as a sandboy
as happy as larry
as pleased as punch
assured
at ease
auspicious
away
beaming
beatific
beside oneself with joy
blessed
blissed out
blissful
blithe
blithesome
bouncy
breezy
bright
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
brightened
brilliant
bubbly
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Other 4-syllable words like pessimistic
Here are some other common words that have 4 syllables, like pessimistic does.
- postulation
- reliably
- resurrection
- apathetic
- enthusiasm
- interviewee
- anomaly
- analogous
- efficacy
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- indecisive
- millennium
- autonomous
- peninsula
- narcissistic
- vulnerably
- lascivious
- prejudicial
- teetotaller
- analogy
- diacritic
- sagittate-leaf
- falteringly
- reevaluate
- concomitant
- desultory
- legislature
- well-organized
- redecorate
- securable
- unrequested
- immediate
- unabated
- iteration
- amenable
- amicable
- calculation
- chiropractic
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- storifying
- disorganize
- esoteric
- stupidity
- prospectively
- reappearance
- benaiah
- unpleasantly
- exuberant
- Rogelio
- annihilate
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