defeatist

Word family (noun) defeat defeatism defeatist (adjective) defeatist defeated ≠ undefeated (verb) defeat

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdefeatistde‧feat‧ist /dɪˈfiːtɪst/ noun [countable] FAILsomeone who believes that they will not succeed —defeatist adjective a defeatist attitude —defeatism noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusdefeatist• That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.• Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.• Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.• A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued, though not defeatist.• What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.• In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.• It is difficult to understand why the Democratic leadership should have been quite so defeatist in 1981.

单词	defeatist
释义	defeatist Word family (noun) defeat defeatism defeatist (adjective) defeatist defeated ≠ undefeated (verb) defeat From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdefeatistde‧feat‧ist /dɪˈfiːtɪst/ noun [countable] FAILsomeone who believes that they will not succeed —defeatist adjective a defeatist attitude —defeatism noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusdefeatist• That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.• Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.• Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.• A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued, though not defeatist.• What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.• In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.• It is difficult to understand why the Democratic leadership should have been quite so defeatist in 1981.
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