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All pessimist synonyms

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noun pessimist

  • nihilist — total rejection of established laws and institutions.
  • quitter — a person who quits or gives up easily, especially in the face of some difficulty, danger, etc.
  • defeatist — A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
  • coward — If you call someone a coward, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid dangerous or difficult situations.
  • naysayer — a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views: Despite a general feeling that things were going well, a few naysayers tried to cast gloom.
  • worryguts — Worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
  • fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
  • doomster — a doomsayer.
  • worrywart — a person who tends to worry habitually and often needlessly; pessimist; fussbudget.
  • kill-joy — a person who spoils the joy or pleasure of others; spoilsport.
  • alarmist — Someone or something that is alarmist causes unnecessary fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen.
  • disbeliever — A person who refuses to believe something or who lacks religious faith.
  • disbelievers — Plural form of disbeliever.
  • jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
  • chicken little — a person who spreads baseless or exaggerated reports of danger; alarmist
  • doubter — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
  • invertebrate — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
  • killjoy — a person who spoils the joy or pleasure of others; spoilsport.
  • cynic — A cynic is someone who believes that people always act selfishly.
  • doomsayer — a person who predicts impending misfortune or disaster.
  • doomsdayer — a doomsayer.
  • misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
  • materialist — a person who is markedly more concerned with material things than with spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
  • invertebrates — Zoology. not vertebrate; without a backbone. of or relating to creatures without a backbone.
  • misogamist — hatred of marriage.
  • whiner — to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc.: The puppies were whining from hunger.
  • mockers — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • worrier — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • dampener — to make damp; moisten: to dampen a sponge.
  • misbeliever — Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
  • moaner — One who moans.
  • cassandra — a daughter of Priam and Hecuba, endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed
  • grinch — a person or thing that spoils or dampens the pleasure of others.
  • misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
  • gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
  • flouter — A person who flouts.
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