fatalistic
fay tuh li stik
- a of or relating to fatalism
- And so he answers questions like that one in Ohio with a fatalistic admission that he and the President are linked, for better and probably for worse.
- Aside from lack of money and political will, they also face entrenched traditions and fatalistic attitudes to maternal mortality, especially in very poor communities.
- The irony, Borowsky says, is that these fatalistic belief systems may help perpetuate the tendency toward poor health and early demise in certain social or ethnic groups.