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FATALIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fatalist mean?
• FATALIST (noun)
The noun FATALIST has 1 sense:
1. anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
Familiarity information: FATALIST used as a noun is very rare.
• FATALIST (adjective)
The adjective FATALIST has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: FATALIST used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
determinist; fatalist; predestinarian; predestinationist
Hypernyms ("fatalist" is a kind of...):
necessitarian (someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will)
Derivation:
fatalism (a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them)
fatalist (of or relating to fatalism)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to fatalism
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
fatalist; fatalistic
Context example:
fatalistic thinking
Pertainym:
fatalism (a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them)
Derivation:
fatalist (anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny)
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