BEARISH Synonyms: 144 Similar and Opposite Words

bearish

adjective

ˈber-ish

Definition of bearish

as in hopeless

emphasizing or expecting the worst some studio execs are bearish about this summer's box office

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as in irritable

having or showing a habitually bad temper a bearish recluse who ordered everyone to stay off his property

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Recent Examples of bearish While more than $470 million of the $634 million in options premium on Apple Wednesday was tied to calls, much of it was calls sold, with net trade sentiment in the options leaning slightly bearish, according to data from SpotGamma and Barchart. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 30 July 2026 An unwinding of these bearish bets in the options pits could help OKTA stabilize. — Schaeffer's Investment Research, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The surge in short interest coincides with a decidedly bearish sentiment creeping into what had been a relentlessly bullish AI trade. — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 23 July 2026 But many expect it will be stripped out or knocked down for procedural reasons in the Senate – where Republicans are already bearish on the prospects of such a bill passing at all before November. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for bearish

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearish

Adjective

Yet their portrait of the artist as a hopeless snot-nosed punk doesn’t seem interested in knowing who this guy was past being another dude in search of a purpose.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
Echoing her sentiments, Shaharier remembered feeling hopeless when his baby boy was born so early.

— Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026

Definition of hopeless

Adjective

Whether a balanced market can be achieved with competing cartels will be an interesting experiment in a sometimes-irritable trade relationship.

— Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Just as Depp made to exit the stage, a haunting voice came over the speaker, eerily repeating the irritable man’s name.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 23 July 2026

Definition of irritable

Adjective

In this cynical age, our local registrars of voters, usually one from each party, remain respected public officials.

— Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
The novel follows Lila Dixon, an acerbic, cynical baseball scout living a dreary and closed-off life in her 30s.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of cynical

Adjective

The six most pessimistic fan bases in the Power 4 last August went on to cheer for teams that finished with losing records.

— The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
The findings reflect a deeply pessimistic economic mood as the country heads to the November midterm elections.

— Emily Guskin, ABC News, 29 July 2026

Definition of pessimistic

Adjective

Look the steady coarsening of American civic and political culture and the ways in which the once-outrageous—the bilious, hateful rhetoric and the creeping authoritarianism—have become almost ordinary.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Minaj’s bilious flurry is possibly related to claims that she is owed between $100 to 200 million related to her stake in Tidal, the music streaming service launched and spearheaded by Jay-Z in 2015 and was sold to Jack Dorsey’s company Square for $297 million in 2021.

— Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025

Definition of bilious

Adjective

That left the debtor having to prove the negative that the debtor really didn't have any way to re-establish control over trust assets, and such was (and still is) a very tough sell.

— Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
There is some debate in our field about, again, these higher-level components of pain, the emotional negative valence that’s associated with pain.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of negative

Adjective

In the show, Kyle Chandler plays Hal Jordan, an ornery Green Lantern who is begrudgingly training his upstart protégé (Aaron Pierre).

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 July 2026
Leach also would publicly call out his players and could get ornery when questioned about his team’s shortcomings.

— Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 2 June 2026