English-French translations for pessimistic

• pessimiste
  Il n'y a donc pas lieu d'être pessimiste. We therefore have no reason to be pessimistic.
  Faut-il pour autant être pessimiste ? Should we be pessimistic then?
  C’est trop facile d’être pessimiste.It is too easy to be pessimistic.

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