ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Glass-half-empty

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Glass-half-empty is an adjective meaning (idiomatic, of a person) pessimistic.

Meaning

(idiomatic, of a person) pessimistic.

Example Sentences

Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”

Antonyms for glass-half-empty

Common opposites include glass-half-full.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include negative, pessimistic, doomist, semicynical, miserabilist, crapehanging.

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