1. Someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked 
2. Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
   - defeatist

Derived forms: negativists

See also: negativism

Type of: balker [N. Amer], baulker [Brit], noncompliant, pessimist

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