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negaholic

negaholic noun: a person who has a persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.

Noun

negaholic (plural negaholics)

  1. (informal) A person who has a persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
    • The member, Mary Benson, was a longtime member of the church whom Elaine, despite all efforts at charity, had never been able to warm up to, since she was a classic half-empty negaholic.2009, Sid Gardner, The Faults of the Owens Valley, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 321
    • Even so, those whom corporate trainer and management consultant Chérie Carter-Scott would call “negaholics” will take glum comfort in the news that some Americans seem to be tiring of the Pursuit of Wow.2012, Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, University of Minnesota Press (2012) →ISBN, page 172

Forms of negaholic

pluralnegaholics

Origin of negaholic

From neg + -aholic.

Questions about negaholic

What does negaholic mean?
Negaholic means a person who has a persistently negative or pessimistic outlook.
What part of speech is negaholic?
Negaholic is a noun.
What is the plural of negaholic?
The plural of negaholic is negaholics.

Words near negaholic in the dictionary

  1. negabicomplex
  2. negabinary
  3. negacyclic
  4. negadecimal
  5. negafibonacci
  6. negaholic
  7. negaholics
  8. negaholism
  9. negamax
  10. negamile
  11. negamiles

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