| Main Entry: | pessimist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who expects bad outcome |
Synonyms: |
complainer, crepehanger, cynic, defeatist, depreciator, downer, gloomy, killjoy, misanthrope, party pooper, prophet of doom, sourpuss, wet blanket, worrier, worrywart |
Antonyms: |
optimist |
| Main Entry: | alarmist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who spreads alarm |
Synonyms: |
Cassandra, Chicken Little, pessimist, scaremonger, voice of doom |
| Main Entry: | coward |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is scared, easily intimidated |
Synonyms: |
alarmist, baby*, caitiff, chicken heart, chicken liver, chicken*, craven, cur, dastard, deserter, faint-of-heart, faintheart, fraidy-cat, funk, gutless, invertebrate, jellyfish, lily liver, malingerer, mouse, pessimist, poltroon, quitter, rabbit, recreant, scaredy cat, shirk, shirker, skulker, sneak, weakling, white liver, wimp*, yellow belly, yellow* |
Antonyms: |
aggressor, hero |
| Main Entry: | cynic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
Synonyms: |
carper, caviler, detractor, disbeliever, doubter, doubting Thomas, egoist, egotist, flouter, misanthrope, misanthropist, misogamist, misogynist, mocker, pessimist, questioner, satirist, scoffer, skeptic, sneerer, unbeliever |
| Notes: | cynics doubt because they question motives (Cynic was first a school of philosophy expressing contempt for wealth and pleasure; the word cynic comes from Greek cyniko 'doglike'); skeptics doubt reports of what they hear or read |
Antonyms: |
believer, optimist |
| Main Entry: | doomsayer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alarmist |
Synonyms: |
Chicken Little, doom merchant, pessimist, scaremonger |
| Main Entry: | killjoy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spoilsport |
Synonyms: |
complainer, dampener, doomsdayer, grinch, grouch, moaner, partypooper, pessimist, prophet of doom, stick in the mud, wet blanket, whiner |
| Main Entry: | skeptic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is leery, unbelieving |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer, unbeliever |
Antonyms: |
believer, devotee, disciple |
| Main Entry: | misanthropist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cynic |
Synonyms: |
carper, caviler, detractor, disbeliever, doubter, doubting Thomas, egoist, egotist, flouter, misanthrope, misogamist, misogynist, mocker, pessimist, questioner, satirist, scoffer, skeptic, sneerer, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | unbeliever |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skeptic |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, apostate, atheist, cynic, disbeliever, dissenter, doubter, doubting Thomas, freethinker, heathen, heretic, infidel, materialist, misanthrope, misbeliever, nihilist, nonbeliever, pagan, pessimist, profaner, questioner, rationalist, scoffer |