fatalist

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English

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Etymology

From fatal +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

Noun

fatalist (plural fatalists)

  1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
    • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth:
      ....it is that, with every day, my love for you increases—though that would seem to be almost an impossibility. Why should I not become a fatalist? Remember how, on the third day that we ascended the Shlangenberg, I was moved to whisper in your ear: 'Say but the word, and I will leap into the abyss.' Had you said it, I should have leapt. Do you not believe me?"
    • 2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:
      “Maybe the problem is that you’re a romantic,” says my former lover-slash-friend-slash-male-sensitivity-reader. “And maybe so are the other fatalists.”

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fataliste.

Adjective

fatalist m or n (feminine singular fatalistă, masculine plural fataliști, feminine and neuter plural fataliste)

  1. fatalistic

Declension

Declension of fatalist
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite fatalist fatalistă fataliști fataliste
definite fatalistul fatalista fataliștii fatalistele
genitive-
dative
indefinite fatalist fataliste fataliști fataliste
definite fatalistului fatalistei fataliștilor fatalistelor

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fátum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fatǎlist/
  • Hyphenation: fa‧ta‧list

Noun

fatàlist m anim (Cyrillic spelling фата̀лист)

  1. fatalist

Declension

Declension of fatalist
singular plural
nominative fatalist fatalisti
genitive fatalista fatalista
dative fatalistu fatalistima
accusative fatalista fataliste
vocative fataliste fatalisti
locative fatalistu fatalistima
instrumental fatalistom fatalistima

References

  • fatalist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

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Noun

fatalist c

  1. a fatalist

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