If someone is fatalisticabout something, especially an unpleasant event or situation, they feel that they cannot change or control it, and therefore that there is no purpose intrying.
People we spoke to today were really rather fatalistic about what's going to happen. [+ about]
Examples of 'fatalistic' in a sentence
fatalistic
The theory undermines the fatalistic view that genes are our destiny.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Others would take a more fatalistic view and say that work is simply necessary.
Christianity Today (2000)
He began to become a little fatalistic.
The Sun (2009)
This is a Government that has become complacent and fatalistic.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But if you are an external, you take the fatalistic view things happen by luck or chance.
The Sun (2009)
With a sense of fatalistic resignation, he says he has for a long time had to divide his loyalties and schedule.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
England's tactics were dismal and negative, letting the game drift in an almost fatalistic manner.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Many people I know may agree with me but have become totally fatalistic about the chances of convincing anyone else.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In a bunch finish he will, at exactly the right moment, spurt away to leave his rivals looking exhausted and feeling fatalistic.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Few people take such a fatalistic approach to their genetic destiny, reasoning that each generation brings a new genetic mix, perhaps correcting the flaws of the past.