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fatalists

fatalists is the plural of fatalist.

Meaning of fatalist

Noun

fatalist (plural fatalists)

  1. One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
    • ....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...1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter V, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/V)

Questions about fatalists

What is fatalists the plural of?
Fatalists is the plural of fatalist.

Words near fatalists in the dictionary

  1. fatalisms
  2. fatalist
  3. fatalistic
  4. fatalistical
  5. fatalistically
  6. fatalists
  7. fatalities
  8. fatality
  9. fatality rate
  10. fatality rates
  11. fatalize

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