Defeatist Synonyms

dēfētist, difētist
Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. negativist

Words Related to Defeatist

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Defeatist Sentence Examples

  • Yet the consultation paper takes a very complacent if not defeatist line on such issues.

  • In this article I shall argue that to think simply like this would be wrong and rather defeatist.

  • And they are in too defeatist a frame of mind to think positively.

  • We can do something about it, and I can't understand why all the left has become so defeatist.

  • In Scotland and Northern Ireland over the last two decades, unionism has become defeatist, defensive and apprehensive about the future.

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