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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"
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adjective. disapproving uk / dɪˈfiː.tɪst / us / dɪˈfiː.t̬ɪst / Add to word list. 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.
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."
: 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. Recent Examples on the Web. These examples are automatically compiled from online sources to illustrate current usage.
A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
Define defeatist. defeatist synonyms, defeatist pronunciation, defeatist translation, English dictionary definition of defeatist. n. Acceptance of or resignation to the prospect of defeat. de·feat′ist adj. & n.
Definition of defeatist noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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 definition: a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. . See examples of DEFEATIST used in a sentence.
Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology, and may sometimes be used synonymously with fatalism or determinism. [1] History.
A defeatist is someone who thinks or talks in a way that suggests that they expect to be unsuccessful.
