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pessimist

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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
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