Usually means: Pessimistic view on achieving success.
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  1. defeatist: Merriam-Webster
  2. defeatist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defeatist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. defeatist: Vocabulary.com
  5. Defeatist, defeatist: Wordnik
  6. defeatist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. defeatist: Wiktionary
  8. defeatist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. defeatist: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. defeatist: Dictionary.com
  11. defeatist: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. defeatist: Rhymezone
  13. defeatist: FreeDictionary.org
  14. defeatist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. defeatist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. defeatist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. defeatist: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  of, or relating to defeatism
▸ noun:  someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude

Similar:
negativist, rejectionistic, antifrustrationist, neofascistic, exclusionist, declinist, atheistick, denialist, anti-devolutionist, antitheistic, more...

Opposite:
optimistic, hopeful

Types:
pessimistic, negative, cynical, skeptical, doubtful, unenthusiastic, more...

Phrases:
opposite of defeatist, more...

Adjectives:
moral, british, bloody, first, complete, traitorous, old



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Similar:
negativist, rejectionistic, antifrustrationist, neofascistic, exclusionist, declinist, atheistick, denialist, anti-devolutionist, antitheistic, more...

Opposite:
optimistic, hopeful

Types:
pessimistic, negative, cynical, skeptical, doubtful, unenthusiastic, more...

Phrases:
opposite of defeatist, more...

Adjectives:
moral, british, bloody, first, complete, traitorous, old



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