Defeatist definition

dēfētist, difētist
defeatists
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A person who too readily accepts or expects defeat.
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Of or characteristic of a defeatist.
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Of, or relating to defeatism.
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Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.
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Noun

Singular:
defeatist
Plural:
defeatists

Origin of defeatist

  • From French défaitiste

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Defeatist Sentence Examples

  • Yet the consultation paper takes a very complacent if not defeatist line on such issues.

  • We can do something about it, and I can't understand why all the left has become so defeatist.

  • This isn't a defeatist attitude in Taurus's world.

  • And they are in too defeatist a frame of mind to think positively.

  • In Scotland and Northern Ireland over the last two decades, unionism has become defeatist, defensive and apprehensive about the future.

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