nihilistic
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- adjective
- /ˌnaɪəˈlɪstɪk/
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nihilista
- Many people today hold a nihilistic view that nothing in life has inherent meaning.
- nihilistic critique
- nihilistic potential of modernity
- nihilistic interpretation
And when you're cynical and when you're nihilistic, it just drains you of energy.
- And when you're cynical and when you're nihilistic, it just drains you of energy.
- Just a morose, suicidal, nihilistic, you know, jerk, which fits in that world.
- This is the bleak, nihilistic viewpoint, right?
- If you extract these principles from our life, love, kindness, care, you create a kind of nihilistic abyss is what emerges.
- We are somehow seating people who are so nihilistic and so freakishly divorced from anything that we should be able to assume as a default.
- The best way to avoid falling back into nihilistic behaviours and thinking if you're looking for certainty, the reality of suffering is certain.
- That is to be nihilistic in a way.
- And that's really, you know, a difficult, nihilistic pill to swallow.
- Well, that's you have to be infinitely nihilistic to believe that.
- There's this resolution to the nihilistic framing of it because you cannot do nothing.
- There is that I'm quite nihilistic and I, I, I think that's, that's a difficult thing.
- And the last several years have been very sort of this have been like a little bit of a nihilistic landscape where no one was getting punished.
- Why does anything really, No, I hate to say, are you gonna get, are you gonna get like nihilistic on the cynics?
- It's it's a nihilistic, evil, anti human society that we've got going on right now.
Examples
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Are they less likely to adopt a nihilistic view of the future?
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If you take, for instance, the punk movement, which was anarchic, it was nihilistic, it was very countercultural.
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Recognition of that fact is not a nihilistic policy choice but only a sad recognition of reality.
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They're not as nihilistic as they look on the Internet.
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Nihilism is the death of the spirit, and thus a nihilistic regime is a regime of death.
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This is the bleak, nihilistic viewpoint, right?
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Here, the mind's failure to present to itself a holistic understanding of events produces a moment of nihilistic terror.
Academic text (2016) -
The best way to avoid falling back into nihilistic behaviours and thinking if you're looking for certainty, the reality of suffering is certain.
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I'’d describe it as nihilistic.
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Lester tries to comprehend the nihilistic existentialism of it all.
Fiction book (2002)
Antonyms
Compounds
How Nihilistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
nihilistic = nihilism (transparent) = nihil + istic
Formed from the noun 'nihilism' with a standard adjectival suffix '-istic', so the adjective clearly means 'related to nihilism'.
Etymology
The word nihilistic comes from the Latin root nihil, which means 'nothing' and is like the English word nil. So, to be nihilistic is to see life as 'nothing' or to reject usual values and beliefs.