1. defeatist - Noun
2. defeatist - Adjective
someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions
Source: WordNetI can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible. Frank Macfarlane Burnet
I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it. Stephen Harper
Geraldine: We must tell the truth! Prentice: That's a thoroughly defeatist attitude. Joe Orton
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. Carroll Shelby
It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been. Christopher Reeve
Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable - that mankind is doomed - that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. John F. Kennedy