fatalist

Other forms of fatalist

plural

fatalists·

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.

Questions about fatalist

What does fatalist mean?

fatalist means "anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fatalist?

fatalist has 3 syllables: fa-ta-list. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪtəlɪst/.

What is another word for fatalist?

Close synonyms include determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist, fatalistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fatalist a common word?

fatalist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.