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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A believer in fatalism; one who maintains the opinion that all things happen by inevitable predetermination.
  2. n. One whose conduct is controlled by belief in fatalism; one who accepts all the events and conditions of life as proceeding from or leading to an inevitable fate: as, Orientals are naturally fatalists.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity, a person who believes in fatalism.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
  2. adj. of or relating to fatalism

Examples

  • “He calls the fatalist's question: "Can an Arabian steed submit to be a vile drudge?”

    George Borrow The Man and His Books

  • “Dr. GOOLSBEE: Well, I certainly dont think we should adopt a kind of fatalist view that, you know, we were down in a deep hole, it's going to take us a while to get out so we should just give up.”

    NPR: Economic Adviser Goolsbee On Tax Cuts

  • “I've been a "fatalist" and I'm beginning to see the error in my ways and how this dark overview has robbed my life of much joy and possible adventure.”

    Lisa Guest: I Used to Be a Fatalist! Perhaps I Have a Choice?

  • “Another term used to refer to people who see external forces as greatly determining their destiny is "fatalist," and Mexicans have often been labeled as being a great deal more fatalistic than Americans.”

    ¡Ni Modo! - Commentary On Business In Mexico

  • “She made him sit down; she assured him that her sister quite expected him, would feel as sorry as she could ever feel for anything -- for she was a kind of fatalist, anyhow -- if he didn't stay to dinner.”

    The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II)

  • “a "fatalist," if it be fatalism to believe that "what will be will be," -- Jackson's constant motto.”

    The Campaign of Chancellorsville

  • “The problem is that if you give an audience a threat, but no information on how to counter it, they either become fatalist or ignore it, and also, it opens the door to the counter-framing of calling people “alarmists”.”

    AGU Day 0: Restarting the Climate Conversation | Serendipity

  • “I guess that I am somewhat of a fatalist when it comes to what might happen in life.”

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  • “He is a born gambler, as well as fatalist, and he is not averse to taking a chance; though his own life be the stake, he plays against another's life.”

    Mexico's Army and Ours

  • “As he dies, the fatalist succumbs amid London's refrain: “Fortune did not whirl, but gay San Francisco dimmed and faded; and as the sun-bright snow turned blacker and blacker, he breathed his last malediction on the Chance he had misplayed.””

    “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction

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  • reesetee Nobody is listing uselessness' ghosts. Why don't you? ;-) Dec 20, 2007

  • john Orphling, excellent word! Dec 20, 2007

  • bilby I was all excited when I woke up this morning about an idea to make a list of uselessness's ghosts. Then I realised that if I put them on a list they wouldn't be ghosts any more :-( Dec 20, 2007

  • mollusque Fatalist, the place where all those words killed off by uselessness go. Poor ghosted orphlings. Dec 20, 2007

  • bilby Nobody is listing fatalistically. Why don't you? Dec 20, 2007

  • reesetee Ah, it'll never last. ;-> Dec 20, 2007

  • desilutrek i can't believe i've already stumbled onto a heretofore unlisted word. wow.
    perhaps that should now make me less of a fatalist! Dec 20, 2007

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