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say it: di-FEE-tist
defeatist is a noun meaning "someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions". It is pronounced /dɪˈfitɪst/ — di-FEE-tist. It carries one recorded sense.
someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for defeatist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.