Pessimist

pes'sY-mist, n. One who complains of every- thing as being for the worst, — opp. to optimist. [L. pe imus, worst.] — Pe imistic, a. Gloomy; croaking. — Pes's imism, -mizm, n. Opinion or doctrine, etc. Pe3t, pest, n. A fatal epidemic disease; plague; pestilence a troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive person or thing. [F. peste, L. pest is, the — plague, perh. f perdere, to destroy.] Pest'-house, n. A hospital for persons infected with malignant contagious disease. — Pestiferous, -er-us, Pest bearing pestilential infectious contagious mischievous destructive vexatious. [L. pestiferus, fr. pest is and Jerr to bear.] — Pestiferously, adv. Pes'tilence, -tl-lens, n. That which pestilent; the disease known as the plague any deadly epidemic contagious or infectious disease that which breeds disturbance or vice. [F. L. pestilential — Pes'tilent, a. Pestilential noxious contaminating infectious troublesome. [F. L. pest i lens.] — Pestilential, -shal, a. Producing or tending to produce the pest, plague, or other infectious disease; noxious; seriously troublesome.— Pestilen'tially, Pes'tilently, adv.