Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hold or express the belief or doctrines of a pessimist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To think like a
pessimist ; to believe the worst. - verb transitive To make (something)
pessimal . - verb transitive To make (something) less
efficient , such as acomputer program . - verb intransitive To become
pessimal .
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Examples
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The only way to pessimize that is to use drones, remotely controlled from a central bunker somewhere in a fortified base.
Sun Bloggers Joerg Moellenkamp 2010
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Implicit mutations (such as the upgrading of an SV due to numification) typically results in a copy, so multithreaded access to immutable SVs could either pessimize the caching or just use a spinlock on upgrades.
Planet Perl 2009
whichbe commented on the word pessimize
To take a negative view of; make the worst of; also, to act or speak in a pessimistic manner.
May 12, 2008