[] pessimism (about/for/over sth) a feeling that bad things will happen and that sth will not be successful; the tendency to have this feeling悲观；悲观主义◆There is a mood of pessimism in the company about future job prospects.公司里对未来岗位前景存在悲观情绪。OPPoptimism ⨁business / economic / investor / market pessimism商业／经济／投资者／市场悲观情绪⨁growing / increasing / widespread pessimism日益增长的悲观情绪；普遍的悲观情绪⨁a mood / sense of pessimism悲观情绪／感▸ˈpessimist