英:[ˌpesɪ'mɪstɪklɪ]
美:[ˌpesɪ'mɪstɪklɪ]
英:[ˌpesɪ'mɪstɪklɪ]
美:[ˌpesɪ'mɪstɪklɪ]
Adverb
1. with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner;
"he evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically"
pessimist + -ic >entry 1
The first known use of pessimistic was in 1865
pesterverb
annoy, bother
pestnoun
an epidemic disease which causes a large number of deathsespecially: plague entry 1 sense 2
something resembling a pest in destructivenessespecially: a plant or animal harmful to human beings or human concerns (as agriculture)
one that pesters or annoys : nuisance
pessimisticadjective
of, relating to, or marked by pessimism : gloomy
1 "More pessimistically, it could be that there are few mixed schools because no-one really wants a mixed school."
2 He evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically.
他对自己活下来的可能性估计得相当悲观.
3 O’Leary’s pessimistic tone also doesn’t quite match up with the strong results his company just posted.
4 It was to a Morgan Wallifarro unaccustomedly pale and agitated that the same lady, who had pessimistically forecast Anne's future, gave him, on his arrival at home, what information she could.
5 Left with nothing, they seem to have reached an impasse, or possibly, less pessimistically, a place where, free of insignia, they might consider their situation anew.
6 But at last the silence was broken, and with it vanished the last sign which Angus had read so pessimistically in his employer.
7 Seligman finds much higher rates of depression in people who pessimistically attribute their failures to personal deficits.
8 One lookalike lectures pessimistically on the future of art to an audience of one.
9 As with most traits, the way we see our lives — optimistically or pessimistically or somewhere in between — is a combination of the temperament we’re born with and the environment we grow up in.
10 His companions were pessimistically preparing his grave without reckoning on his vitality.
11 One attendee pessimistically compared the medium with the potential of “atomic energy”; perhaps neutral, but possibly dangerous.
12 The Seahawks are a team that likes to turn normal football conventions on their ear, starting at the top with Pete Carroll who, in Richard Sherman’s words, “coaches optimistically rather than pessimistically.”
13 The pessimistic opinions surrounding Gen Z’s defining characteristics prove that employers can’t fully shake their antiquated ideas of what work should look like.
14 Trump may be proceeding pessimistically in part because that’s how he’s succeeded so far.
15 Specifies if records are updated pessimistically or optimistically.
指定记录是保守式更新还是开放式更新.
16 Others pessimistically dismissed the likelihood that China's increasing prosperity would continue to lift all boats.
其他人则悲观地认为中国越来越富裕并不会给所有人带来好处.
17 He said Pew polling in 1999 — before the September 2001 terror attacks — found that 64 percent of Americans pessimistically believed that a terrorist attack on the United States probably or definitely would happen.
18 So, pessimistically, how difficult is it going to be to prevent these things that lead to refugee crises in the first place?
19 Or, as I was pessimistically forecasting, was it proof that she is destined to put the opinions of others before her own until she winds up on a therapist’s couch?
20 That Mr. Kelley offered no way to integrate those opposites is a large part of what makes his art so unsettlingly, pessimistically provocative.