Synonyms for defeatism
- chip on one's shoulder
- cynicism
- dim view
- discouragement
- expectation of the worst
- gloomy outlook
- hopelessness
- lack of confidence
- low spirits
- negative thinking
- negativism
- pessimism
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But not because of any anti-life attitude, or pessimism, or defeatism.
The army was demoralized and saturated with the defeatism preached by the Porazhentsi.
Some in our midst have sought to instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American people about this problem.
To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away--is not defeatism.
WORD ORIGIN
1918; see defeatist.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR DEFEATISM
negative attitude
nounbad attitudesubmission
nouncompliance- acquiescence
- appeasement
- assent
- backing down
- bowing
- capitulation
- cringing
- defeatism
- deference
- docility
- giving in
- humbleness
- humility
- malleability
- meekness
- nonresistance
- obedience
- passivism
- passivity
- pliabilty
- prostration
- recreancy
- resignation
- servility
- subjection
- submissiveness
- submitting
- surrender
- tractability
- unassertiveness
- yielding
submissions
nouncompliance- acquiescence
- appeasement
- assent
- backing down
- bowing
- capitulation
- cringing
- defeatism
- deference
- docility
- giving in
- humbleness
- humility
- malleability
- meekness
- nonresistance
- obedience
- passivism
- passivity
- pliabilty
- prostration
- recreancy
- resignation
- servility
- subjection
- submissiveness
- submitting
- surrender
- tractability
- unassertiveness
- yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.