fatalistic

/,feitə'listik/

Thân thiện

A person with a fatalistic outlook simply accepts the news.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or characterized by fatalism: Describes the belief or attitude that all events are predetermined and inevitable, often leading to a passive acceptance of outcomes.
   • Resembling or typical of a fatalist: Describes a person who accepts events as inevitable and feels powerless to change them.

Usage and Examples

• General Use:

  • She had a fatalistic attitude towards the exam, believing her score was already decided.
  • His fatalistic outlook prevented him from taking any preventive action.

• Describing Beliefs or Philosophy:

  • The novel explores a fatalistic worldview where characters feel trapped by destiny.
  • Ancient tragedies often present a fatalistic universe governed by the gods.

Advanced Usage

• "fatalistic acceptance": A resigned acceptance of events as unavoidable.
  • He met the bad news with a kind of fatalistic acceptance.
• "fatalistic determinism": A philosophical stance emphasizing that all events are causally inevitable.
  • The doctrine was a form of fatalistic determinism that denied free will.

Variants and Related Words

• Fatalism (n): The belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable.
  • His fatalism made him indifferent to planning for the future.
• Fatalist (n): A person who believes in or accepts fatalism.
  • As a fatalist, she rarely worried about things outside her control.

Synonyms

• Resigned: Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot change.
• Deterministic: Relating to the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will.
• Predestinarian: Relating to the belief that everything has been decided or planned in advance by God or fate.

Antonyms

• Optimistic: Hopeful and confident about the future.
• Proactive: Creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.
• Voluntarist: Relating to the belief that the will is a fundamental or dominant factor in the individual or the universe.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. of or relating to fatalism
   • a fatalist person

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