defeatistde‧feat‧ist /dɪˈfiːtɪst/ noun [countable] 
- A few hundred yards away at Conservative Central Office the mood has been more subdued, though not defeatist.
- 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.
- That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.
- Those who belittle the value of new integrative speculation are, in a phrase of Bennett's, dogmatically defeatist.
- What a sceptical or defeatist system needs is motivation.
- Yet it would be wrong to end this chapter on a defeatist note.
noundefeatdefeatismdefeatistadjectivedefeatistdefeated ≠ undefeatedverbdefeat
a defeatist attitude—defeatism noun [uncountable]