bearish

bear·ish

adj \ˈber-ish\

Definition of BEARISH

1

: resembling a bear in build or in roughness, gruffness, or surliness <a bearish man>

2

a : marked by, tending to cause, or fearful of falling prices (as in a stock market) <bearish investors> b : pessimistic

— bear·ish·ly adverb

— bear·ish·ness noun

Examples of BEARISH

1. The market has been bearish lately.
2. <some studio execs are bearish about this summer's box office>

First Known Use of BEARISH

1744

Related to BEARISH

Synonyms: pessimistic, defeatist, despairing, downbeat, hopeless

Antonyms: hopeful, optimistic, Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish (also Polyannish), rose-colored, rosy, upbeat

Related Words: cynical, fatalistic, nihilist, nihilistic; desperate, discouraging, disheartening, inauspicious, unlikely, unpromising; bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen; grim; contrary, hostile, negative

Near Antonyms: auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, promising, propitious; cheering, comforting, reassuring; favorable, good, positive; idealist, romantic, utopian, visionary; cheerful, cheery, chipper, sunny

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Rhymes with BEARISH

cherish, fairish, garish, perish, squarish