Definitions for defeatist

defeatist de·feat·ist

Spelling: [dih-fee-tist]
IPA: /dɪˈfi tɪst/

Defeatist is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 294 anagrams from letters in defeatist (adeefistt).

Definitions for defeatist

noun

  1. a person who surrenders easily or is subject to defeatism.
  2. an advocate or follower of defeatism as a public policy.

adjective

  1. marked by defeatism.

Origin of defeatist

1915-20; defeat + -ist, modeled on French défaitiste

Examples for defeatist

"You can't afford to get defeatist about this, Rod," Biddington went on.

And the Republican candidates are indeed attacking him as defeatist and weak.

I will take her any day over the “educated class,” the bureaucratic mollusks and the defeatist sad sacks in Washington.

The pacifists and "defeatist" Socialists represented a minority.

But do you honestly think I could entertain such a defeatist notion for one instant?

Socialist and defeatist writers took advantage of this state of affairs.

But while the case is still in progress, the "defeatist" meets his fate from the pistol bullet of a fanatic.

Unfortunately, this sort of defeatist measure was recently proposed in the House of Representatives.

If anything is hopeless—and breeds hopelessness—it is this defeatist approach.

In fact, he routinely refers to the traditional Muslim clergy as “imams of infidelity,” “defeatist imams,” or “hypocrite imams.”

Word Value for defeatist
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