defeatist
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7.4
- noun
- /dɪˈfiːtɪst/
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derrotista
- He has a defeatist attitude that prevents him from trying new things.
- defeatist attitude
Examples
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This defeatist attitude is not gonna get us anywhere.
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Yet this vagrancy is partly of his own making and is due to his defeatist attitude, especially his inclination to flee from confrontation.
Academic text (1997) -
How can anybody do anything with this kind of defeatist talk?
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This is crazy defeatist talk
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How have you made it this far being such a defeatist?
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I hate to see a young man like you take a defeatist attitude.
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After two tough losses, it would be easy to slip into defeatist thinking.
Blog text (1) -
You have a defeatist mentality.
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Don't be such a defeatist.
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That's just defeatist.
Synonyms
42
3.2
A person who gives up easily and does not finish things
25
3.9
A person who expects bad things to happen
3
7.9
A person who believes events are already decided and cannot be changed
3
9.3
A person who thinks the future will be bad and expects disaster
1
8.9
A person who always expects bad things to happen
1
8.2
A person who always expects the worst and often complains
A person who always sees the bad side of things and offers no solutions
A person who always sees the bad side of things
A person who gives up during a fight or competition
Antonyms
How Defeatist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word defeatist comes from defeat ('loss' or 'to be beaten') and the ending -ist ('person who'). So a defeatist is someone who expects failure and often does not try to change the result.