simis's Usage Examples:

The Epicureans, on the other hand, were empirical pessimists.

Pessimism is numbing, demoralizing, depressing.

Although he used to be a bubbly person, recent tragedies in his life have caused him to turn pessimistic.

But we should quite misunderstand this pessimism if we held it to mean that Jeremiah saw no signs of private morality and individual spiritual convictions among his people.

Pessimism, therefore, depends upon the individual point of view, and the term is frequently used merely in a condemnatory sense by hostile critics.

There is a touch of Byron, Swinburne and even of Schopenhauer in many of his rubais, which clearly proves that the modern pessimist is by no means a novel creature in the realm of philo- sophic thought and poetical imagination.

Schopenhauer emphasizes the pessimistic side of Hegel's thought.

Flint has dealt with the following antitheistic theories: atheism, materialism, positivism, secularism, pessimism, pantheism and (in a separate volume) agnosticism.

There are quatrains in the Rubdiyat of Omar Khayyam and pessimistic verses in Ecclesiastes which might have been uttered by Aristippus ("Then commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing than to eat and to drink and to be merry; for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life which God giveth him under the sun").

At the time in history when our future has never looked brighter, it is baffling that some people are more pessimistic than ever.

In turn, his complaining could just mean that his personality type is that of a pessimist.