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bearish

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Adjective
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bear=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

bearisha. 
  •  Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.  Harris.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Fearful of or anticipating falling prices, as in the stock market; as, bearish sentiment inhibited buying.  [PJC]
  •  Tending to cause prices to fall.  [PJC]
  •  Pessimistic.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bearish, adj.
1 like a bear, esp. in temper.
2 Stock Exch. causing or associated with a fall in prices.

THESAURUS

bearish

abrupt, aggressive, beastly, bitchy, bluff, blunt, brash, brusque, cankered, cantankerous, cavalier, churlish, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, curt, cussed, disagreeable, excitable, feisty, fractious, gruff, harsh, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, mean, ornery, perverse, rough, severe, sharp, short, snappish, snippy, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, surly, testy, truculent, ugly, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish

ROGET THESAURUS

bearish

Discourtesy

N discourtesy, ill breeding, ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners, insuavity, uncourteousness rusticity, inurbanity, illiberality, incivility displacency, disrespect, procacity, impudence: barbarism, barbarity, misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret_e, brusquerie, vulgarity, churlishness, spinosity, perversity, moroseness, sternness, austerity, moodishness, captiousness, cynicism, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity, scowl, black looks, frown, short answer, rebuff, hard words, contumely, unparliamentary language, personality, bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast, unlicked cub, frump, crosspatch, saucebox, crooked stick, grizzly, discourteous, uncourteous, uncourtly, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned, unbred, unmannerly, unmannered, impolite, unpolite, unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel, ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly, unladylike, blackguard, vulgar, dedecorous, foul- mouthed foul-spoken, abusive, uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious, cool, pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious, repulsive, uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant, inaffable, ungentle, ungainly, rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff, churlish, boorish, bearish, brutal, brusque, stern, harsh, austere, cavalier, taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious, snarling, surly, surly as a bear, perverse, grim, sullen, peevish, untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic, artless, discourteously, with discourtesy, with a bad grace.


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