PESSIMIST; PESSIMISTIC
Pes"si*mist, Pes`si*mis"tic, a. (Metaph.)
Defn: Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.
PESSIMISTICAL
Pes`si*mis"tic*al, a.
Defn: Pessimistic.
PESSIMIZE
Pes"si*mize, v. i.
Defn: To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.
PESSULUS
Pes"su*lus, n.; pl. Pessuli. Etym: [L., a bolt.] (Anat.)
Defn: A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
PEST
Pest, n. Etym: [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]
1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.