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DEFEATIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defeatist mean?
• DEFEATIST (noun)
The noun DEFEATIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
Familiarity information: DEFEATIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
defeatist; negativist
Hypernyms ("defeatist" is a kind of...):
pessimist (a person who expects the worst)
Derivation:
defeat (an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest)
defeat (the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals)
defeatism (acceptance of the inevitability of defeat)
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