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[ dih-fee-tist ] / dɪˈfi tɪst / SEE SYNONYMS FOR defeatist ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy. Origin of defeatist1915–20; defeat + -ist, modeled on French défaitiste Words nearby defeatistdefeasance, defease, defeasible, defeat, defeatism, defeatist, defeature, defecate, defect, defectible, defection Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for defeatistUnfortunately, this sort of defeatist measure was recently proposed in the House of Representatives. The Government is Still Failing Kids on School Lunches|Russell Saunders|May 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST If anything is hopeless—and breeds hopelessness—it is this defeatist approach. What Roger Cohen Gets Wrong|Yousef Munayyer|March 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak. The GOP's War Hypocrisy|Peter Beinart|October 31, 2011|DAILY BEAST I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington. In Defense of Tea Parties|Tunku Varadarajan|January 11, 2010|DAILY BEAST
In fact, he routinely refers to the traditional Muslim clergy as “imams of infidelity,” “defeatist imams,” or “hypocrite imams.” Now He's 52|Reza Aslan|March 10, 2009|DAILY BEAST "You can't afford to get defeatist about this, Rod," Biddington went on. The Merchants of Venus|A. H. Phelps Socialist and defeatist writers took advantage of this state of affairs. The Russian Turmoil|Anton Ivanovich Denikin The pacifists and "defeatist" Socialists represented a minority. But while the case is still in progress, the "defeatist" meets his fate from the pistol bullet of a fanatic. Romain Rolland|Stefan Zweig Moreover, now that I had had time to meditate upon it, I was more than ever defeatist about this scheme of Jeeves's. Right Ho, Jeeves|P. G. Wodehouse
Words related to defeatistcynic, worrier, negative, misanthrope, complainer, sourpuss, killjoy, downer, depreciator, worrywart, cheerless, dejected, dispirited, gloomy, hopeless, unhappy, unhopeful, party pooper, wet blanket, crepehanger |