1. Somebody who always looks on
the dark side, thinks negatively, and assumes what can go wrong should go wrong.
2. A person who replies to statements, and
situations ignoring anything
good that happened and only points out the bad things
(
Definition 1, Tom being the pessimaster)
Tom: Somebody's gonna come to school with a gun and shoot us
Craig: That's not gonna happen, man don't think like that
Tom: Dude you know there are crazy people in the school, someone will start shooting one day
(
Definition 2, Craig being the pessimaster)
Tom: The
running back just got like 40 yards on the play
Craig: But he didn't get a touchdown
Tom: He still got a big gain, and it was a sweet run
Craig: But somebody tackled him and stopped the play, so it wasn't that sweet