Crossword clues for fatalist
fatalist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fatalist \Fa"tal*ist\, n. [Cf. F. fataliste.] One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, adherent of the philosophical doctrine that all things are determined by fate; from fatal + -ist. General sense of "one who accepts every condition and event as inevitable" is from 1734.
Wiktionary
n. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity, a person who believes in fatalism.
WordNet
adj. believing in or inclined to fatalism; "a fatalist person" [syn: fatalistic]
relating to or implying fatalism; "fatalistic thinking" [syn: fatalistic]
n. anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny [syn: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist]
Usage examples of "fatalist".
For, without being a fatalist, or a disciple of Baruch de Spinoza, I must confess that I cannot conceive a greater resemblance to our human and earthly state than the penal predicament of the devoted flies.
Scotland, the priest summoned Desmarais, whom, it will be remembered, I had previously dismissed, and whom Montreuil had since employed in various errands, and informed him that he had obtained for his services the same post under Gerald which the Fatalist had filled under me.
Before Gerald could answer, we heard a noise without, and presently I distinguished the bland tones of the hypocritical Fatalist, in soft expostulation with the triumphant voice of Mr.
I am a fatalist, as you know, Marillier, and when I throw my die against destiny I abide by its cast.
After his manner, the old chief was a fatalist, and believed that most surely, while Cloud-Daughter dwelt with the people of Maianbar, no power of earth or heaven should prevail against them.
In other words, Jacques will raise a brood of fatalists as resilient as himself.
At first they seemed indifferent, for they were absolute fatalists, but her strategy of mollification meant they no longer pointed their guns at the prisoners while they slept, and their weapons, wrapped in cloths, were kept out of sight behind the television.
Fejjuan in betraying the Beduins, and that was caused by his liking for Ateja, but being a fatalist he was consoled by the conviction that whatever was to be, would be, regardless of what he might do.
He seemed pleased with my recital, spoke of natural vocations as a Stoic philosopher, and I saw that he was a fatalist.
If Cecil Rhodes's vision could come true (which fortunately is increasingly improbable), such countries as Persia or Arabia would simply be filled with ugly and vulgar fatalists in billycocks, instead of with graceful and dignified fatalists in turbans.