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pessimistic

adj
/ˌpɛ.səˈmɪs.tɪk/

Etymology

From pessimist + -ic.

Definitions

  1. Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness

    Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.

    • a pessimistic view of the future

  2. Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.

    • a pessimistic estimate
    • However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.

  3. Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might…

    Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.

    • pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking

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Derived

cyberpessimistic, ecopessimistic, heteropessimistic, overpessimistic, pessimistically, pessimistic concurrency, pessimistic time, unpessimistic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pessimistic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01pessimistic02hopefulness03hopeful04hope05infinitive06mood07gloomy

A definitional loop anchored at pessimistic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at pessimistic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA