You can't fight a good fight with such a defeatist attitude.
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Defeatist
Synonyms for "defeatist" (28 found)
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Strong matches (8)
Related words (14)
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Translations
31 translations across 15 languages.
Armenian
2 entries- պարտվողական adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- պարտվողական noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Belarusian
3 entries- паражэнскі adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- паражэнцкі adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- паражэнец noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Catalan
2 entries- derrotista adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- derrotista noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Czech
1 entries- poraženecký adj (of or relating to defeatism)
Danish
2 entries- defaitistisk adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- defaitist noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Finnish
2 entries- defaitistinen adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- defaitisti noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
French
2 entries- défaitiste adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- défaitiste noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
German
2 entries- defätistisch adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- Defätist noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Hebrew
2 entries- תבוסתן noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
- תבוסתנית noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Hungarian
3 entries- defetista adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- kishitű adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- defetista noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Icelandic
1 entries- uppgjafarsinni noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Italian
2 entries- disfattista adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- disfattista noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Polish
3 entries- defetystyczny adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- defetysta noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
- defetystka noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Russian
2 entries- пораже́нческий m пораже́нческая adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- пораже́нец noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Spanish
2 entries- derrotista adj (of or relating to defeatism)
- derrotista noun (someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
You can't fight such a defeatist approach.
Source: tatoeba (2397342)
Do you want this defeatist propaganda to bring about further deterioration of the situation?
Source: tatoeba (6006404)
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!
Source: wiktionary
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