glass-half-empty

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. pessimistic idiomatic,not-comparable
    — Susan Kropf, the company's president and chief operating officer, says that while the management team is “by nature optimistic,” there is a “glass half empty kind of mentality.” Says Kropf. “We always think about what more we could have done, or how we could have done it better.”

词形变化

glass half empty alternative

词汇关系

反义词
glass-half-full

词源

From the expression "Is the glass half empty or half full?", the answer to which is said to determine whether a person is optimistic or pessimistic.
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