The phrase "is much less optimistic" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a decrease in positivity or hope compared to a previous state or expectation. Example: While the initial projections were encouraging, the latest data shows that the company's revenue is much less optimistic than anticipated.
We are much less optimistic.
1 Foreign economists are much less optimistic than their American counterparts about what is ahead for the United States economy.
Foreign economists and executives are much less optimistic than their American counterparts about what is ahead for the United States economy.
The latest survey from the CBI shows that retailers are much less optimistic about sales over Christmas than they were this time last year.Now the economy faces the prospect of a sharper overseas downturn than expected.
Mr Batchelor reckons that, after stripping out the cost of litigation, MasterCard's operating margins have grown by about 2% a year for the past five years and will continue to expand, if more slowly.Some analysts are much less optimistic.
[C4.] Executives in Japan Less Optimistic Japanese corporate leaders are much less optimistic about business prospects than they were three months ago as they worry about fading export growth, a widely followed Bank of Japan survey showed.
Alderson was much less optimistic, though, about the prospect of a return this season for first baseman Ike Davis, who has been out with a bone bruise in his left ankle since May, when he was involved in a freak collision with David Wright.
Individuals who blame religion for the Muslim-Western divide are much less optimistic about avoiding conflict.
This measure has remained roughly constant over the past three years, but Americans are much less optimistic about economic opportunity now than before the recession and financial crisis of 2008 unfolded.
