fatalist

From fatal +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/

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fatalist (plural fatalists)

1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"

   • 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:

     “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”

• fatalism
• fatalistic
• fatalistically

• fat tails

Borrowed from French fataliste.

fatalist m or n (feminine singular fatalistă, masculine plural fataliști, feminine and neuter plural fataliste)

1. fatalistic

• fatàlista (Bosnia, Serbia)

From fátum.

• IPA^(key): /fatǎlist/
• Hyphenation: fa‧ta‧list

fatàlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling фата̀лист)

1. fatalist

• “fatalist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

fatalist c

1. a fatalist

• fatalism
• fatalistisk

• determinist

• fatalist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fatalist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)