Epäoptisista

Epäoptisista is a Finnish adjective form used to describe things associated with not being optimistic, i.e., pessimistic attitudes, forecasts, or assessments. It is formed with the negating prefix epä- attached to a stem related to optimism, and appears in contexts where a noun is in plural and in a case such as genitive or partitive.

In standard usage, the more common variants are epäoptimistinen or pessimistinen, but epäoptisista can appear in written Finnish as a grammatical form when describing multiple objects or propositions in a particular case. The exact form often depends on the noun it modifies and the grammatical case being used.

Usage and examples:

- epäoptisista näkemyksistä voivat seurata varovaiset päätökset. (from pessimistic views may follow cautious decisions)

- raportissa käsiteltiin epäoptisista ennusteista johtuvia riskejä. (the report dealt with risks stemming from pessimistic forecasts)

- keskustelussa viittasimme epäoptisista asenteista. (in the discussion we referred to pessimistic attitudes)

Status and notes:

Epäoptisista is relatively uncommon in everyday Finnish compared with epäoptimistinen or pessimistinen. When encountered, it generally functions as a modifier in a phrase describing plural nouns in a specific grammatical case. For readers, the intended meaning is typically clear from context: it denotes non-optimistic or pessimistic characteristics rather than a separate, widely used technical term.

See also:

- Optimistinen

- Optimismi

- Pessimisti

- Epäluottamus