adjective
- like a bear; rough, burly, or clumsy.
- Informal. grumpy, bad-mannered, or rude.
- Commerce.
- declining or tending toward a decline in prices.
- characterized by or reflecting unfavorable prospects for the economy or some aspect of it: a bearish market.
adjective
- like a bear; rough; clumsy; churlish
- stock exchange causing, expecting, or characterized by a fall in pricesa bearish market
“grumpy, surly,” 1744, from bear (n.) + -ish. Related: Bearishly; bearishness.