Defeatist Definition

dēfētist, difētist
defeatists
noun
defeatists
A person who too readily accepts or expects defeat.
Webster's New World
Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.
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Synonyms:
  • negativist
adjective
Of or characteristic of a defeatist.
Webster's New World

Of, or relating to defeatism.

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Other Word Forms of Defeatist

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.

  • In this article I shall argue that to think simply like this would be wrong and rather defeatist.

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

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

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

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

TSTIST

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