English-Spanish translations for pessimistic

• pesimista
  ¿Hay que ser pesimista, por tanto? Should we be pessimistic then?
  Es demasiado fácil ser pesimista. It is too easy to be pessimistic.
  No compartía esa percepción pesimista. I did not share this pessimistic view.
• agorero

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