defeatist

Collocations

4

VERB + DEFEATIST

fight, want

DEFEATIST + NOUN

attitude, propaganda

PREP.

with

ADV.

such

Definitions

adj

1

Of or relating to defeatism.

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!

noun

1

Someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive

negativist

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

4

01

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

Wiktionary

02

You can't fight a good fight with such a defeatist attitude.

Tatoeba · #41301

03

You can't fight such a defeatist approach.

Tatoeba · #2397342

04

Do you want this defeatist propaganda to bring about further deterioration of the situation?

Tatoeba · #6006404