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defeatist

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of defeatist

emphasizing or expecting the worst

  • your defeatist attitude is depressing everyone else on the team!
Synonyms of defeatist

bearish, despairing, downbeat, hopeless, pessimistic
Words Related to defeatist

cynical, fatalistic, nihilist, nihilistic

desperate, discouraging, disheartening, inauspicious, unlikely, unpromising

bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber (or sombre), sullen

grim

contrary, hostile, negative
Near Antonyms of defeatist

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, promising, propitious

cheering, comforting, reassuring

favorable, good, positive

idealist, romantic, utopian, visionary

cheerful, cheery, chipper, sunny
Antonyms of defeatist

hopeful, optimistic, Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish (also Polyannish), rose-colored, rosy, upbeat

defeatist

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of defeatist

one who emphasizes bad aspects or conditions and expects the worst

  • we told her that if she was going to be such a defeatist, she should keep her thoughts to herself
Synonyms of defeatist

pessimist
Words Related to defeatist

Cassandra, Jeremiah

cynic, fatalist, nihilist

hardnose, pragmatist, realist

anti-utopian

knocker, naysayer

worrier, worrywart
Near Antonyms of defeatist

Don Quixote, dreamer, fantast, idealist, idealizer, ideologue (also idealogue), romantic, romanticist, utopian, visionary

sentimentalist
Antonyms of defeatist

optimist, Pollyanna

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