English-Finnish translations for pessimistic

• pessimistinen
  Arvoisa puhemies, raportti ei ole optimistinen eikä pessimistinen. Mr President, the report is neither optimistic nor pessimistic.
  En ole pessimistinen; ainoastaan realistinen. I am not being pessimistic here, just realistic.
  Toivon, että aika pessimistinen arvioni ei osoittaudu oikeaksi. I hope that my rather pessimistic assessment is not proved correct by events.
• synkkä
• synkkämielinen

Definition of pessimistic

• Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst
• Pertaining to the worst-case scenario
• Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it

Examples

• a pessimistic view of the future
• a pessimistic estimate
• pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

Related words

• pessimistically
• Euro-pessimistic
• Europessimistic
• pessimistic locking
• be pessimistic