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pessimistic

 adjective
     
pes‧si‧mis‧tic
expecting that bad things will happen in the future or that something will have a bad result [≠ optimistic]:
a pessimistic view of life
pessimistic about
He remains deeply pessimistic about the peace process.
—pessimistically adverb
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