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词汇	pessimist
词源	pessimist n. 1820, "one who habitually expects the worst, one who exaggerates the evils of life, one given to melancholy or depressing views" (Knowles' dictionary, 1835, defines it as "A universal complainer"), from 19c. French pessimiste (see pessimism). Also "one who accepts the metaphysical doctrine of pessimism" (it is difficult to distinguish the senses). Entries linking to pessimist pessimism n. 1794 "worst condition possible, point of greatest deterioration" (a sense now rare or obsolete), borrowed (by Coleridge) from French pessimisme, formed (on model of French optimisme) from Latin pessimus "worst," perhaps originally "bottom-most," from PIE ped-samo-, suffixed (superlative) form of ped- "to walk, stumble, impair," from root *ped- "foot." Compare Latin pessum "downward, to the ground." As a name given to the metaphysical doctrines of Schopenhauer, Hartmann, etc., that this is the worst possible world, or that everything tends toward evil, it is recorded in English by 1835, from German pessimismus (Schopenhauer, 1819). As "tendency to exaggerate in thought the evils of life or to look only on the dark side," by 1815. The attempt to make a verb of it as pessimize (1862) did not succeed. pessimistic adj. "pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of pessimism," 1866, from pessimist + -ic. updated on April 16, 2020
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