pessimistically

comparative more pessimistically · superlative most pessimistically

1. In a pessimistic manner.

   Doctors are not accustomed to dwell pessimistically on the future problems of their patients. If the problem does eventualize, it can be handled then.

   1991, J. Michael Barrett, James Stanley McQuade, Determining disability and personal injury damage: medical evaluation for trial lawyers

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   Dancing in the honeymoonlight which bathes the poem, the Owl and the Pussy-cat more wistfully, but less pessimistically, get on terms with another Victorian classic, Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach'. Arnold's is also a seaside honeymoon poem, his newlyweds watch 'ignorant armies clash by night' instead of dancing by the light of the moon.

   2005, Edward Lear, Peter Swaab, Over the land and over the sea

   In the dissonant dynamics of [Hannah] Höch's simultaneous Dada montages the "nothing" and the "everything" of Dada were related to each other, both pessimistically and in a utopian manner.

   2003, Hanne Bergius, edited by Stephen C. Foster, “Dada Triumphs!”: Dada Berlin, 1917–1923: Artistry of Polarities; Montages – Metamechanics – Manifestations (Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada; 5), New York, N.Y.: G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 291

   Synonyms: negatively