释义
[ dih-fee -tiz-uh m ] SHOW IPA
/ dɪˈfi tɪz əm / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun the attitude, policy, or conduct of a person who admits, expects, or no longer resists defeat, as because of a conviction that further struggle or effort is futile; pessimistic resignation.
Origin of defeatism 1915–20; defeat + -ism, modeled on French défaitisme
Words nearby defeatism DEFCON, defeasance, defease, defeasible, defeat, defeatism , defeatist, defeature, defecate, defect, defectible
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Example sentences from the Web for defeatism Third, pulling out before any real efforts have been tried sends a message of hopelessness and defeatism more than anything else.
Livni's Ill-Advised Threat Against Bibi | Brent E. Sasley| June 11, 2013| DAILY BEAST
It was a country that had succumbed to paralysis and defeatism and nostalgia.
How Margaret Thatcher Saved Britain and Changed the World | David Frum| April 8, 2013| DAILY BEAST
It seems at this point that dysfunction and defeatism are institutionally baked into the culture of the team.
Washington’s True Dysfunction: Basketball’s Woeful Wizards | Lloyd Grove| November 28, 2012| DAILY BEAST
For decades since, Britain has exercised its political resentments in the defeatism of the sporting field.
Take a Bow, London: The Olympics Were a Triumph | Peter Jukes| August 13, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Even the Taliban picked it up as a supposed sign of American defeatism .
Inside Holbrooke's War With the White House | The Daily Beast| January 14, 2011| DAILY BEAST
Some in our midst have sought to instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American people about this problem.
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt
But not because of any anti-life attitude, or pessimism, or defeatism .
The army was demoralized and saturated with the defeatism preached by the Porazhentsi.
To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away--is not defeatism .
State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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British Dictionary definitions for defeatism noun a ready acceptance or expectation of defeat
Derived forms of defeatism defeatist , noun , adjective Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to defeatism resignation, capitulation, humility, assent, prostration, appeasement, servility, obedience, acquiescence, deference, humbleness, submissiveness, tractability, malleability, surrender, yielding, meekness, subjection, docility, unassertiveness