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Type Words
Synonyms fatalistic


a fatalist person.
fatalistic thinking.
Type Words
Synonyms determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist
Type of necessitarian
Derivation fatalism

Examples of fatalist

fatalist
The father, a stoic fatalist near retirement age, shows signs of terminal lung disease.
From the nytimes.com
He was also a profound, serene fatalist-which may have been the secret of his equilibrium.
From the time.com
Charlie is a fatalist and often believes the world is coming to the end.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This belief is the pure fatalist counter to the quantum physics argument.
From the en.wikipedia.org
That said, I've always been a bit of a fatalist about those things.
From the sltrib.com
Or maybe you are a fatalist who says is it the will of your big G and there is nothing we can do?
From the newscientist.com
You, on the other hand, are being fatalist to a fare the well.
From the economist.com
Scotland's Jackie Stewart is something of a brooding fatalist.
From the time.com
He was described then as a wary fatalist who behaves as if he had once lost everything in the Depression.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • Of or relating to fatalism; "a fatalist person"
  • Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
  • (fatalism) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
  • (fatalism) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them
  • Fatalism is a philosophical doctrine emphasizing the subjugation of all events or actions to fate or inevitable predetermination.
  • One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity
  • (Fatalism) Differentia: Holds that all future events are determined by fate and unalterable
  • (Fatalism) The psychological counterpart of determinism: the belief that the future will happen anyway, and there's nothing that anybody can do about it. It follows that it's useless to try and improve the human condition. ...
  • (FATALISM) Events are predetermined by a cosmic purpose, plan, or will. Whatever is foreordained will occur no matter what. Human control is limited to attitude (e.g., resignation to the will of God). Nothing happens by accident or chance.