fatalist
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.
Rare. fatalistic.
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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.
They didn't want a labourer now, but the Oracle was a vague fatalist, and Mitchell a decided one.
Over the Sliprails | Henry LawsonThe old fatalist had accepted the worst, and now he waited for doom to descend.
Riders of the Silences | John FrederickSo 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 ScottIt 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
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