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 Yet options traders were still leaning bearish in their trades into the bell Thursday, with 670,000 puts traded out of the total 900,000 options on the ETF. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026 Also last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s admission that an AI bubble exists and Michael Burry’s bearish bets represented more red flags. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 Bumper earnings from bellwether tech giants Anthropic and TSMC did little to assuage a market that has turned bearish on the AI trade, sending stocks plummeting. — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bearish

Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearish

Adjective

But Texans also have something to teach the country about digging in and fighting for a seemingly hopeless cause; conservatives aren’t the only ones who remember the Alamo.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026
Owens not only lacked an undergraduate degree but did poorly in school, where she was described as a hopeless case.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of hopeless

Adjective

Murray says her own experience has made her more understanding when female colleagues seem more tired or irritable than usual, particularly when the behavior is out of character.

— Jo Ann Liguori, Flow Space, 21 Oct. 2026
Could be because for much of the running time, Abrams’ Jay Gardiner is up against what looks like a very large irritable sphincter.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of irritable

Adjective

The piece is an exuberantly hopeful and unabashedly patriotic look at America and its possibilities that seems downright defiant in such a deeply cynical and divided time in the nation’s history.

— Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Far more gruesome and cynical than its YA label would imply, Weiner’s brisk novel is the literary equivalent of a sugar rush.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of cynical

Adjective

His second confrontation is with an angry, judgmental version of Original Vision who accuses him of cowardice and inaction for denying his identity for so long.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
His familiar cast of angry, sometimes menacing children began to give way to quieter, more introspective figures.

— Daniel Cassady for ARTnews, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of angry

Adjective

America’s housing market is paralyzed, with buyers pulling back and builders growing more pessimistic ahead of the midterms.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
Also hitting the road was Vice President JD Vance, who campaigned in North Carolina, where Republicans have been pessimistic about retaining a Senate seat.

— Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of pessimistic

Adjective

Ready to Wear, the bilious bomb of a film in which Robert Altman took aim at the fashion industry with an elephant gun—and missed.

— Charles Gandee, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of bilious

Adjective

Becerra may also be sympathetic to environmental justice communities — poorer neighborhoods, often of color — that have experienced disproportionately negative effects from extraction industries such as oil drilling and mining.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Hyperscaler stocks, though, soared, with traders betting they will be forced to rein in the rapid spending that has pushed their free cash flow to negative territory.

— J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of negative

Adjective

White and Madison are sort of like Tom Cruise and Demi Moore, building a mountain of evidence against the company, while Strong is playing an ornery witness a la Jack Nicholson.

— Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026
But however janky, the system just about works for the ornery menfolk muddling their way through it, with their many beefs mostly resolved with a bottle of lethally alcoholic local tipple chacha, or a punch to the face, or both.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026