Pessimize

Quick meaning: Pessimize is a verb meaning (transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.

Meaning

(transitive) To take a pessimistic view of; to speak of in a negative or pessimistic way.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (something) pessimal or the worst; (in a weaker sense) to make (something, such as a computer program) less efficient.
2. (intransitive) To think like a pessimist; to believe the worst.
3. (intransitive) To become pessimal or the worst.

Example Sentences

The pessimising and desponding tone of the Tory Foreign Minister's correspondence, in the early part of 1859, can hardly be read without a shudder.

Designing a window without the building, a light without the room, or a motor without the machine it drives works as badly as designing a pelican without the fish. Optimizing components in isolation tends to pessimize the whole system – and hence the bottom line.

Thus optimizing the pipe as a component, and for just one benefit (saved pumping energy), "pessimizes" the system! Optimizing the whole system together, and for two benefits (saving energy and capital), yields fat pipes, tiny pumping equipment, slightly lower total capital cost, and 12 times less pumping energy.

Certainly it was not in the interest of the Government to come forward and propose any additional taxation if they could, with consistency and with satisfaction to heir own consciences, have avoided it, and he did not think his two previous Budgets showed that it was in his nature to pessimise or to take desponding views.

Word Forms

• pessimizes
• pessimizing
• pessimized
• pessimise

Antonyms for pessimize

Common opposites include optimize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pessimise, diminutize, negativize, understate, downplay, deoptimize.

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