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- Dictionarydefeatist/dɪˈfiːtɪst/
noun
- 1. a person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure.
adjective
- 1. demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure: "we have a duty not to be so defeatist"
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having no hope and expecting to fail: Being defeatist will get us nowhere. He's got such a defeatist attitude. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not hopeful. a road to nowhere idiom. be in a funk idiom. be on a hiding to nothing idiom. be on the road to nowhere idiom. bleakly. bleakness. dispiritedness. dispiritingly. doom and gloom.
A defeatist is the opposite of an optimist. A defeatist is convinced that he's going to fail, and he isn't surprised when he does fail. This is how a defeatist might propose to his girlfriend: "I'm sure you're going to say 'no,' so why don't you just go ahead and reject me now."
Defeatist definition: a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. . See examples of DEFEATIST used in a sentence.
: an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat. defeatist. di-ˈfē-tist. dē- noun or adjective. Examples of defeatism in a Sentence. We must not give in to defeatism. We must be optimistic.
having no hope and expecting to fail: Being defeatist will get us nowhere. He's got such a defeatist attitude. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Not hopeful. be in a funk idiom. be on a hiding to nothing idiom. be on the road to nowhere idiom. bleakly.
DEFEATISM definition: 1. a way of thinking or behaving that shows that you have no hope and expect to fail: 2. a way of…. Learn more.
1. a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism. 2. an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy. adjective.
