defeatist
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++de·feat·ist /dɪˈfiːtɪst/ noun [countable] FAILsomeone who believes that they will not succeed 失败主义者 —defeatist adjective a defeatist attitude 失败主义的态度 —defeatism noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpus
defeatist• That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.• Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.• Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.• A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued, though not defeatist.• What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.• In my view, then, it was rather defeatist from a vocational standpoint to adopt a stance like Mr Graham's.• It is difficult to understand why the Democratic leadership should have been quite so defeatist in 1981.de·feat·ist nounChineseSyllable
believes someone that they succeed will Corpus not who
defeatist
de‧feat‧ist /dɪˈfiːtəst, dɪˈfiːtɪst/
noun [countable]
—defeatist adjective:
a defeatist attitude
—defeatism noun [uncountable]
de‧feat‧ist /dɪˈfiːtəst, dɪˈfiːtɪst/
noun [countable] Word Family: noun: defeat, defeatism, defeatist; adjective: defeatist, defeated ≠ UNDEFEATED; verb: defeat
someone who believes that they will not succeed—defeatist adjective:
—defeatism noun [uncountable]