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1
emphasizing or expecting the worst
- some studio execs are bearish about this summer's box office
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- hopeful,
- optimistic,
- Panglossian,
- Pollyanna,
- Pollyannaish
- (also Pollyannish),
- rose-colored,
- rosy,
- upbeat
2
having or showing a habitually bad temper
- a bearish recluse who ordered everyone to stay off his property
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- acid,
- bilious,
- bloody-minded
- [chiefly British],
- cantankerous,
- disagreeable,
- dyspeptic,
- ill-humored,
- ill-natured,
- ill-tempered,
- ornery,
- splenetic,
- surly
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“Bearish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearish. Accessed 13 Jun. 2021.
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The first known use of bearish was in 1607
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