| 单词 | fatalistic |
| 释义 | fatalistic (once / 13477 pages) adj Use the adjective fatalistic to describe someone who believes outcomes are determined in advance and can't be changed. If you think there’s no way you can pass your math exam and studying won’t change anything, then you’re fatalistic. When you pronounce fatalistic, you can hear the word fate. That’s a clue that fatalistic is in some way related to fate — as in destiny. A fatalistic person believes in destiny: whatever is meant to happen will happen. Fatalistic often relates to bad things. If someone has a fatalistic attitude toward a situation, chances are that means the person is expecting things to turn out badly and sees no point in trying to change that outcome. WORD FAMILYfatalistic: fatalistically+/fatal: fataler, fatalest, fatalism, fatality, fatally, nonfatal/fatalism: fatalisms, fatalist, fatalistic/fatalist: fatalists/fatality: fatalities/nonfatal: nonfatally USAGE EXAMPLESTolstoy’s fatalistic heroine aside, the small and sprightly McCauley usually played the cheerful ingenue. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) This fatalistic stance relies on widely held but mistaken assumptions about what constitutes normal aging. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) “I was pretty fatalistic about it,” he said. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) adj of or relating to fatalism Syn fatalist |
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