1) Anticipating a decline 2) Down on the market 3) Expecting a fall 4) Expecting prices to fall 5) Expecting the worst 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Exclusively Anglo word 8) Fearful of a fall 9) Having an unfavorable outlook 10) Like a bear 11) Like a grizzly 12) Like some markets 13) Like the market at times 1) Gruff 2) Pessimistic 3) Ursine 
• (a.) Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners.
Words used to describe investor attitude. A bearish investor believes that a particular asset or the market as a whole will decline in value.
Words used to describe investor attitude.
Bear'ish adjective Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. 
Expectation of a fall in price of an underlying security.
[adj] - (stock market) expecting prices to fall
adjective expecting prices to fall
like a bear; rough, burly, or clumsy. · grumpy, bad-mannered, or rude. · a bearish market. · 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.
Bearish is a broadly used term that describes an investor?s belief that a particular security, a sector, the entire stock market or a nation?s economy is expected to decline.