SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
fatalist
noun
Someone who believes events are determined by fate and cannot be changed.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Believer in unchangeable fate
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Usage distinction
Return to topPredestination concerns predetermined outcomes, often in a theological setting; causal determinism concerns how events follow from causes. Neither alone necessarily implies that effort is futile, as the fatalist outlook does here.
CHECK THE MEANING IN CONTEXT
See fatalist in use
The novel contrasts an energetic reformer with a resigned fatalist.
A fatalist in their fictional performance believed that every outcome was fixed by fate, so no decision could alter the appointed result.
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