defeatist

English

Etymology

From defeat +‎ -ist, after French défaitiste.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈfiːtɪst/

Adjective

defeatist (comparative more defeatist, superlative most defeatist)

  1. Of or relating to defeatism.
    • 1944 December 8, “Up-to-Data: Practical Home Hints for the Modern Woman”, in The Ramsbottom Observer, Ramsbottom, →OCLC, page 6:
      You may look ruefully at your poor red hands and think that just because they have got that way through the extra work you are doing there’s just nothing that can be done about it. Of course, this is a deafeatist attitude—and a lazy one too!

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Noun

defeatist (plural defeatists)

  1. Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.

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References

  1. ^ “defeatist, n. and adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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