expecting not to succeed, and showing it in a particular situation:
a defeatist attitude / view
defeatist noun:
He is a pessimist and a defeatist.
defeatism noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is defeatist a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, defeatist is tagged as adjective.
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