fatalist

[ feyt-l-ist ]

/ ˈfeɪt l ɪst /

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noun

a person who believes that all events are inevitable, so one’s choices and actions make no difference:Protest or not, the odds seem stacked against the likelihood of change, so should we be fatalists and go off to the beach instead?

Philosophy. a person who advances the idea that all events are naturally predetermined or subject to fate: Despite his teaching that class conflict is inevitable, observers contend that Marx was not a fatalist about historical change.

adjective

Rare. fatalistic.

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Origin of fatalist

First recorded in 1640–50; fatal(ism) + -ist

Words nearby fatalist

fast worker, fat, Fatah, fatal, fatalism, fatalist, fatalistic, fatality, fatally, Fata Morgana, fatback

How to use fatalist in a sentence

King was a fatalist, resigned to whatever happened, telling aides he had no choice in how he would die, or when.
MLK’s Friend: He Foresaw His Death|Eleanor Clift|October 14, 2011|DAILY BEAST
They didn't want a labourer now, but the Oracle was a vague fatalist, and Mitchell a decided one.
Over the Sliprails|Henry Lawson
The old fatalist had accepted the worst, and now he waited for doom to descend.
Riders of the Silences|John Frederick
So saying, the gloomy fatalist turned from her, and stalked off with sullen composure to the place of confinement allotted to him.
The Abbot|Sir Walter Scott

It is bad to be a fatalist unless one has an incontrovertible belief in one's destiny,—which Hannah had not.
The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete|Winston Churchill
He was somewhat of a fatalist in his interpretation of affairs and would hang on with the faith that his luck would turn.
The "Genius"|Theodore Dreiser