bearish
adjEtymology From bear + -ish.
1
Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.
2
Business, Finance, Stock market Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
Of the price of financial instruments
- At the start of the year, Bridgewater turned bearish on U.S. bonds and built up a short position.2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
3
Broadly Pessimistic about the future.
- The Germans were downcast because of Eastern Europe and Helmut Schmidt's decline, the Arabs were depressed because of oil and Iraq, the French were bearish because of their government; only the British seemed a little upbeat, but that was before the Falkland Islands incident.2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market: Barton's Market Chronicles from the Morgan Stanley Years, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- bullish
- Derived terms
- bearishly, bearishness, unbearish