Definition of "bearish"

bearish

adjective
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.
  Quotations
  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
3. (by extension) Pessimistic about the future.
  Quotations
  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