fatalistic
/,feitə'listik/
Definition
- 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.
Adjective
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of or relating to fatalism
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a fatalist person
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