pessimistic

pessimiste

Qui s’attend à des événements malheureux ou pense que les choses vont mal se passer.

En anglais simple : Expecting bad things to happen or believing that things will go badly.

• He is pessimistic about the future.
• Her letter sounded unusually pessimistic.
• Why are you so pessimistic about our chances?

Comment l'utiliser : pessimistic about something (She is pessimistic about finding a new job.)

Synonymes : negative, gloomy

Contraires : optimistic

Expressions courantes : pessimistic about something, pessimistic outlook, pessimistic view

pessimiste

Fondé sur le résultat le moins favorable qui pourrait raisonnablement se produire.

En anglais simple : Based on the least favourable result that could reasonably happen.

• The pessimistic estimate puts repairs at six months.
• Even our pessimistic forecast predicts some growth.
• They used pessimistic assumptions when calculating future costs.

Synonymes : worst-case

Contraires : optimistic

Expressions courantes : pessimistic estimate, pessimistic scenario, pessimistic forecast

pessimiste

Qui empêche d’autres programmes de modifier des données pendant qu’un programme les utilise ou les modifie.

En anglais simple : Keeping other programs from changing data while one program is using or changing it.

• The database uses pessimistic locking.
• Pessimistic concurrency prevents two transactions from changing the same record together.
• They switched to a pessimistic approach after repeated update conflicts.

Contraires : optimistic

Expressions courantes : pessimistic locking, pessimistic concurrency