defeatistadjective
uk/dɪˈfiː.tɪst/us/dɪˈfiː.t̬ɪst/disapprovinghaving no hope and expecting to fail:
Being defeatist will get us nowhere.
He's got such a defeatist attitude.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- dejected
- despair
- dim
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- hopeless
- lose
- negative
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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defeatist
noun [ C ] ukus
I can't believe it - you're such a defeatist!