NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Defeatist

Defeatism is acceptance and content with defeat without struggle. In everyday use, defeatism has negative connotation, and is often linked to treason and pessimism. The term is commonly used in the context of war: a soldier can be a defeatist if he or she refuses to fight because he or she thinks that the fight will be lost for sure or that it is not worth fighting for some other reason. The term can also be used in other fields, like politics, sports or psychology. The term originates in the French Revolution.

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defeatist - definition of defeatist from YourDictionary.com (256 words)
	become: It is far too easy to become defeatist, far too easy to claim that we cannot compete in the Tests that lie ahead.
	attitude: The defeatist attitude shown in the face of the nationwide report is not good.
	position: The result was that the defeatist position adopted in 1938 by the founding congress of the Trotskyist Fourth International lacked political purchase.

defeatist - definition of defeatist in Encyclopedia (121 words)
	In everyday use, defeatism has negative connotation, and is often linked to treason and pessimism.
	The term is commonly used in the context of war: a soldier can be a defeatist if he or she refuses to fight because he or she thinks that the fight will be lost for sure or that it is not worth fighting for some other reason.
	The term can also be used in other fields, like politics, sports or psychology.

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