defeatist
di fee tist
- n someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
- To them, the low-slung black wall would send the same old defeatist, elitist messages that had lost the war in the '60s and then stigmatized the veterans in the '70s.
- And, you know, he was never defeatist.
- Though his original essay was melancholy and defeatist ("It's over, baby.