Talk:pessimistic

RFD discussion: October 2013–July 2014
Rfd-redundant: "Always expecting the worst." Redundant to "Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness." Both definitions are frankly a bit weak but they have separate translation tables so I want a consensus to unify them before I merge them. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:54, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Merge. — Ungoliant (Falai) 22:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes I mean merge, since they're both the same but imperfect. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I think there is room for a distinction that not every dictionary makes. A person can be pessimistic and an impersonal forecast/outlook/appraisal/assessment can be pessimistic. It seems silly to say or imply that a forecast is pessimistic only because of the pessimism of forecaster, but that is what most dictionaries' definitions seem to imply.
 * If the distinction doesn't seem worth distinct sense, perhaps usage examples can show the application to both people and predictions.
 * Of course, this isn't reflecting in the existing senses which seem to be the same meaning worded for different types of dictionaries. DCDuring TALK 22:30, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't oppose such a distinction. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Definitions merged (I think it counts as "delete" here). I also added a definition "Pertaining to the worst-case scenario" for the impersonal meaning; feel free to improve it. — Keφr 18:14, 25 July 2014 (UTC)