negativist

1. 1.

   someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked

   Broaderbalker
2. 2.

   someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions

   Synonymsdefeatist

   Broaderpessimist

Other forms of negativist

plural

negativists·

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 negativist

What does negativist mean?

negativist means "someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in negativist?

negativist has 4 syllables and divides as ne-ga-ti-vist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for negativist?

Close synonyms include defeatist. 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 negativist a common word?

negativist 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.