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US
/ˈfeɪtəɫɪst/
]
[ UK /fˈeɪtəlˌɪst/ ]
[ UK /fˈeɪtəlˌɪst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to fatalism
fatalistic thinking
a fatalist person
NOUN
- anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
How To Use fatalist In A Sentence
- They stand in the hot sun and wait: it is not so much stoical or fatalistic as a worn-out realism.
- In like vein, psychiatrists have vacillated between emphasizing curability and chronicity, between extreme optimism and a more fatalistic pessimism, and between a commitment to deal with the severely mentally ill and a search to find other kinds of patients. The Mad Among Us
- Nevertheless, it's hard to ignore his fatalistic tone when he talks about the music business.
- Others would take a more fatalistic view and say that work is simply necessary. Christianity Today
- By the time Chatton was writing, it was quite common to present a basic fatalist or necessitarian argument to show that God's foreknowledge, which seems deeply connected to his providence, is not consistent with future contingent things and events. Walter Chatton
- Nashe's attitude to his fate is fatalistic, he accepts that his freedom is taken from him and the building of the wall becomes a kind of atonement.
- They get the argument out of a tight corner, and make for a less fatalistic scenario.
- At this stage, students look beyond fatalistic or cultural reasons for inequality to focus on structural, systemic explanations.
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- How many taunts, threats or downright abusive remarks have been reluctantly swallowed with a fatalistic shrug?