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- DictionaryDe·feat·ist/dəˈfēdəst/
noun
- 1. a person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure.
adjective
- 1. demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure: "we have a duty not to be so defeatist"
: an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat. defeatist. di-ˈfē-tist. dē- noun or adjective. Examples of defeatism in a Sentence. We must not give in to defeatism. We must be optimistic.
Synonyms for DEFEATIST: hopeless, cynical, pessimistic, despairing, depressing, negative, bleak, discouraging; Antonyms of DEFEATIST: optimistic, hopeful, upbeat, rosy, encouraging, promising, likely, fair.
Defeatist definition: a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. . See examples of DEFEATIST used in a sentence.
The term defeatism is commonly used in politics as a descriptor for an ideological stance that considers co-operation with the opposition party.
having no hope and expecting to fail: Being defeatist will get us nowhere. He's got such a defeatist attitude. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not hopeful. a road to nowhere idiom. be in a funk idiom. be on a hiding to nothing idiom. be on the road to nowhere idiom.
A defeatist is the opposite of an optimist. A defeatist is convinced that he's going to fail, and he isn't surprised when he does fail. This is how a defeatist might propose to his girlfriend: "I'm sure you're going to say 'no,' so why don't you just go ahead and reject me now."
having no hope and expecting to fail: Being defeatist will get us nowhere. He's got such a defeatist attitude. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not hopeful. be in a funk idiom. be on a hiding to nothing idiom. be on the road to nowhere idiom. bleakly.
Defeatism definition: the attitude, policy, or conduct of a person who admits, expects, or no longer resists defeat, as because of a conviction that further struggle or effort is futile; pessimistic resignation.. See examples of DEFEATISM used in a sentence.
a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you expect to fail: He criticized his party for defeatism. defeatist. adjective us / dɪˈfi·t̬ɪst / You’ll never get anywhere with a defeatist attitude. (Definition of defeatism from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of defeatism.
defeatist - someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
