negativist

The word “negativist” has 4 syllables: neg-a-tiv-ist

It's pronounced as /ˈnɛɡətɪvɪst/


What is synonym and antonym for negativist?

In the thesaurus, “negativist” has 37 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for negativist along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for negativist

Antonyms for negativist

  • Pollyanna
  • cheerful
  • idealistic
  • impractical
  • ingenuous
  • innocent
  • maudlin
  • mushy
  • naive
  • optimist
  • optimistic
  • positive
  • positivist
  • positivistic
  • romantic
  • rose-colored
  • saccharine
  • sappy
  • sentimental
  • trustful
  • trusting
  • uncynical
  • unsophisticated
  • unsuspicious

Example Sentences

  • As a negativist, he often focused on potential problems rather than solutions.
  • The negativist approach in the debate led to a lack of constructive dialogue.
  • While some saw hope in the project, the negativist perspective highlighted its many flaws.
  • Her negativist attitude made it difficult for the team to maintain morale during tough times.
  • The negativist view in economics can sometimes overlook positive trends in the market.

On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to negativist, such as: Cassandra, Chicken Little, Pollyanna, cheerful, cynical, defeatist, derisive.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

uncooperative

  • adamant
  • adamantine
  • bad
  • balky
  • contrary
  • contumacious
  • defiant
  • discourteous
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • disrespectful
  • dissident
  • dogged
  • errant
  • fractious
  • froward
  • hardheaded
  • headstrong
  • ill-bred
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • immovable
  • impertinent
  • implacable
  • impolite
  • impudent
  • incompliant
  • inconsiderate
  • inflexible
  • insolent
  • insubordinate
  • insurgent
  • intractable
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • mulish
  • mutinous
  • naughty
  • negativistic
  • nonconformist
  • noncooperative
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • obstreperous
  • opinionated
  • ornery
  • peevish
  • pertinacious
  • perverse
  • pigheaded
  • rebel
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • recusant
  • refractory
  • resistant
  • restive
  • rigid
  • rude
  • self-willed
  • stubborn
  • unbending
  • uncivil
  • uncompromising
  • uncontrollable
  • uncouth
  • undisciplined
  • ungovernable
  • ungracious
  • unmanageable
  • unmannerly
  • unrelenting
  • unruly
  • untoward
  • unyielding
  • wayward
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • wrongheaded

questioning

  • absorbing
  • analyzing
  • annoying
  • asking
  • assimilating
  • attentiveness
  • believing
  • besieging
  • bombarding
  • calling in question
  • calling into question
  • canvasing
  • canvassing
  • careful
  • catechism
  • catechizing
  • cautious
  • challenging
  • chewing on
  • chewing over
  • cogitating
  • combating
  • combatting
  • conceiving
  • concern
  • concluding
  • considering
  • contemplating
  • contesting
  • critical
  • cross-examining
  • cross-questioning
  • curiosity
  • curious
  • curiousness
  • cynical
  • debating
  • debriefing
  • deliberating
  • digesting
  • disbelieving
  • discounting
  • discrediting
  • disputing
  • distrustful
  • distrusting
  • doubting
  • eavesdropping
  • entertaining
  • examination
  • examining
  • experienced
  • exploring
  • eyeing
  • eying
  • fighting
  • giving the third degree to
  • grilling
  • guarded
  • gun-shy
  • harassing
  • hesitant
  • hounding
  • impeaching
  • incredulous
  • inquest
  • inquiring
  • inquiry
  • inquisition
  • inquisitive
  • inquisitiveness
  • interest
  • interference
  • interrogating
  • interrogation
  • intrusiveness
  • kicking around
  • knowing
  • leary
  • leery
  • looking at
  • meddlesomeness
  • meditating
  • misdoubting
  • mistrustful
  • mistrusting
  • negating
  • negativistic
  • nosey
  • nosiness
  • nosy
  • obtrusiveness
  • officiousness
  • opining
  • opposing
  • oppugning
  • paranoid
  • paranoidal
  • perpending
  • pestering
  • picking the brains of
  • polling
  • pondering
  • protesting
  • prying
  • pumping
  • puzzled
  • querying
  • quizzical
  • quizzing
  • reasoning
  • regard
  • reminiscing
  • resisting
  • reviewing
  • revolving
  • rubbernecking
  • ruminating
  • second-guessing
  • show-me
  • skeptical
  • snoopy
  • sophisticated
  • studying
  • surveying
  • suspecting
  • suspicious
  • sweating
  • turning
  • unbelieving
  • uncertain
  • unconvinced
  • undecided
  • undetermined
  • unsettled
  • unsure
  • wary
  • watchful
  • weighing
  • wonderment
  • worldly
  • worldly-wise

pessimistic

  • bearish
  • bleak
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • contrary
  • cynical
  • dark
  • defeatist
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • derisive
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • distrustful
  • downbeat
  • downhearted
  • dreary
  • fatalistic
  • foreboding
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grim
  • hard-bitten
  • hard-boiled
  • hard-edged
  • hardcase
  • hopeless
  • hostile
  • inauspicious
  • ironic
  • ironical
  • jaded
  • melancholy
  • misanthropic
  • mistrustful
  • mocking
  • morbid
  • morose
  • negative
  • negativist
  • negativistic
  • nihilist
  • nihilistic
  • resigned
  • sad
  • sarcastic
  • sardonic
  • saturnine
  • scornful
  • sepulchral
  • skeptical
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sophisticated
  • sullen
  • suspicious
  • troubled
  • unlikely
  • unpromising
  • unsentimental
  • worldly-wise
  • worried

obstreperous

  • adamant
  • adamantine
  • bad
  • balky
  • blaring
  • blatant
  • blustering
  • blusterous
  • boisterous
  • booming
  • brassy
  • brazen
  • cacophonous
  • caterwauling
  • clamant
  • clamorous
  • clangorous
  • contrary
  • contumacious
  • defiant
  • dinning
  • discordant
  • discourteous
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • disrespectful
  • dissident
  • dissonant
  • dogged
  • earsplitting
  • errant
  • fractious
  • froward
  • grating
  • hardheaded
  • headstrong
  • ill-bred
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-natured
  • immovable
  • impertinent
  • implacable
  • impolite
  • impudent
  • incompliant
  • inconsiderate
  • inflexible
  • insolent
  • insubordinate
  • insurgent
  • intractable
  • loud
  • loudmouthed
  • misbehaving
  • mischievous
  • monkeying
  • monkeyish
  • mulish
  • mutinous
  • naughty
  • negativistic
  • noisy
  • nonconformist
  • noncooperative
  • obdurate
  • obstinate
  • opinionated
  • ornery
  • out of hand
  • outspoken
  • peevish
  • pertinacious
  • perverse
  • piercing
  • pigheaded
  • rackety
  • raising Cain
  • raising the roof
  • rambunctious
  • raucous
  • rebel
  • rebellious
  • recalcitrant
  • recusant
  • refractory
  • resistant
  • restive
  • rigid
  • riotous
  • robustious
  • rowdy
  • rude
  • screaming
  • self-willed
  • shrill
  • squawking
  • strepitous
  • strident
  • stubborn
  • tumultuous
  • unbending
  • uncivil
  • uncompromising
  • uncontrollable
  • uncooperative
  • uncouth
  • undisciplined
  • ungovernable
  • ungracious
  • unmanageable
  • unmannerly
  • unrelenting
  • unruly
  • untoward
  • unyielding
  • uproarious
  • vocal
  • vociferant
  • vociferating
  • vociferous
  • wayward
  • wild
  • wilful
  • willful
  • wrongheaded
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yowling

malcontent

  • aggrieved
  • anarch
  • anarchist
  • baby
  • bawler
  • belittler
  • belly-aching
  • bellyacher
  • bleater
  • challenger
  • complainer
  • complaining
  • crab
  • critic
  • crybaby
  • cynic
  • defeatist
  • defier
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • derider
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • detractor
  • disappointed
  • disconsolate
  • discontent
  • discontented
  • disenchanted
  • disgruntled
  • disillusioned
  • displeased
  • disquieted
  • dissatisfied
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • doubter
  • down
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • extremist
  • forlorn
  • frustrated
  • fussbudget
  • fusser
  • fusspot
  • griper
  • grumbler
  • grump
  • hangdog
  • inconsolable
  • insubordinate
  • insurgent
  • insurrectionary
  • insurrectionist
  • joyless
  • kvetch
  • kvetcher
  • low-spirited
  • misandrist
  • misanthrope
  • miserable
  • misogynist
  • moaner
  • mournful
  • mutineer
  • naysayer
  • negativist
  • oppositionist
  • out of joint
  • perturbed
  • pessimist
  • quitter
  • radical
  • rebel
  • recusant
  • red
  • refuser
  • resistant
  • resister
  • revolter
  • revolutionary
  • revolutionist
  • sad
  • scoffer
  • screamer
  • skeptic
  • sniveler
  • sorrowful
  • squawker
  • unfulfilled
  • unhappy
  • unsatisfied
  • upset
  • wailer
  • weeper
  • whiner

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