NOUN
- someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
- someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked
How To Use negativist In A Sentence
- ‘I love this book: but the very thought of the young men and women this book has made pessimists and negativists makes me uneasy’, he wrote later.
- Because you've voiced your frustration at the way the poor leadership of Tulsa's establishment has damaged our city's beauty, history, safety, and economic viability, you are disqualified for reasons of being a naysayer, a grump, a negativist, from voicing your opinion on city policy. BatesLine: November 2005 Archives
- From The Atlantic's Fiction Issue: Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist -to introduce a new literary type- is more pesuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland formulaic language of praise. Take THAT Mr McSweegee
- The catatonic syndrome of negativistic stupor, characterized by mutism, negativism, stupor, and catalepsy, is also extremely responsive to ECT. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
- Muzaffar Iqbal called me a positivist, and I was happy to show this remark of his to my wife, who finds me too ‘negativist’ on a variety of issues.
- There is a reservoir of support from Euro-pessimists, negativists, even.
- Dalits would like the support to negativist thesis because it ultimately absolves their ideal from neglecting the real interests of his followers.
- He turned into a misanthrope and an angry negativist, into a dim cynic and a sadist, who was unable to have any feeling of compassion at the death of a sailor, and took pleasure in torturing a shark. NOVELS-NOVELS
- You know, another thought I'm having is that I frequently encounter a sort of "negativist peer pressure" that comes from people who are close to one another. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Growth, Giving Up, and more Growth
- Imbued with the righteous moral fervor of a revolutionary, the negativist — to introduce a new literary type — is more persuasive than the encomiast, who tends to resort to the bland, formulaic language of praise. James Atlas on Disparagement