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单词 fatalistic
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Definition of fatalistic in English:

fatalistic

adjective feɪtəˈlɪstɪkˌfeɪdlˈɪstɪk
  • Relating to or characteristic of the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.

    many have an almost fatalistic attitude towards their own health
    he gives a fatalistic shrug at the bleak future
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At this stage, students look beyond fatalistic or cultural reasons for inequality to focus on structural, systemic explanations.
    • Film noir is known for electrifying, fatalistic dialogue.
    • I see what you're saying, 'Utopia', and I'd love the same thing, but I've got a fatalistic/realistic viewpoint that keeps me from getting very caught up in it.
    • The bewilderment and loss of faith in authority, the fatalistic sense that no matter what you do, society will hold you down - all reflect the darker side of the popular mood during that era.
    • Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices.
    • 'Far From the Madding Crowd' is not as fatalistic as Hardy's later works.
    • Believing that women cannot control their own bodies and men cannot control their responses to women, Eva is generally fatalistic and passive, but she does stab a man who grabs her.
    • Osric brings Laertes' challenge to a fencing bout, which a fatalistic Hamlet, despite his forebodings, accepts.
    • For me, his best work are his fatalistic looks at uncomfortable, unavoidable love.
    • He created a low-budget, effectively fatalistic horror film about a man-made plague that wipes out humanity.

Derivatives

  • fatalistically

  • adverbfeɪtəˈlɪstɪk(ə)liˌfeɪdlˈɪstəkli
    • These people, they think, will fatalistically accept any snub.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • No matter what happens in nature or in the life of man and society, fatalistically minded people usually say, "What must be will be".
      • Sexual abuse within the context of marriage may be fatalistically tolerated among some communities.
      • It's about people who have come to so undervalue their own life that ruinous behavior seems unimportant and death is accepted fatalistically.
      • But he was completely cool, puffing fatalistically on a cigarette.
      • What is certain is that we have a choice, and there is no reason for yielding fatalistically to the worst-case scenarios.
      • Two veiled women stare passively and fatalistically through the lens.
      • "If something isn't done, then it won't matter anyway," she replied, fatalistically.
      • She suffers a needle-stick injury from an HIV-positive patient, which she fatalistically leaves untreated.
      • "Our species is unable to learn from its mistakes," he rejoins, fatalistically.
 
 

Definition of fatalistic in US English:

fatalistic

adjectiveˌfādlˈistikˌfeɪdlˈɪstɪk
  • Relating to or characteristic of the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.

    many have an almost fatalistic attitude toward their own health
    he gives a fatalistic shrug at the bleak future
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Audiences must have bought into the fatalistic inevitability of the plot devices.
    • At this stage, students look beyond fatalistic or cultural reasons for inequality to focus on structural, systemic explanations.
    • Believing that women cannot control their own bodies and men cannot control their responses to women, Eva is generally fatalistic and passive, but she does stab a man who grabs her.
    • I see what you're saying, 'Utopia', and I'd love the same thing, but I've got a fatalistic/realistic viewpoint that keeps me from getting very caught up in it.
    • He created a low-budget, effectively fatalistic horror film about a man-made plague that wipes out humanity.
    • Osric brings Laertes' challenge to a fencing bout, which a fatalistic Hamlet, despite his forebodings, accepts.
    • For me, his best work are his fatalistic looks at uncomfortable, unavoidable love.
    • The bewilderment and loss of faith in authority, the fatalistic sense that no matter what you do, society will hold you down - all reflect the darker side of the popular mood during that era.
    • Film noir is known for electrifying, fatalistic dialogue.
    • 'Far From the Madding Crowd' is not as fatalistic as Hardy's later works.
 
 
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