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Etymology

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From bear +‎ -ish.

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bearish (comparative more bearish, superlative most bearish)

  1. Resembling or likened to a bear, typically in being rough, surly, or clumsy.
  2. (stock market, of the price of financial instruments) Characterized by or expecting falling prices.
    • 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN:
      At the start of the year, Bridgewater turned bearish on U.S. bonds and built up a short position.
  3. (by extension) Pessimistic about the future.
    • 2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market: Barton's Market Chronicles from the Morgan Stanley Years[2], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      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.

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  • (antonym(s) of stock market): bullish

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