defeatist

The noises coming out of Old Trafford from Amorim and his players felt despondent and defeatist in the immediate aftermath of United's failure to reach the Champions League.

Solomon: Well, certainly the money is huge, but we want to be realistic without being defeatists.

The UK's never going to attract world-class talent if all we do is look down on the contest and approach it with a defeatist attitude.

The prime minister accused her of being a "climate defeatist".

This sounds defeatist - it shouldn’t be on parents to come up with all the policy solutions in what is an incredibly complicated space.