Fatalist

Definitions: Fatalist

Fatalist

Adjective

1. Believing in or inclined to fatalism; "a fatalist person".

2. Relating to or implying fatalism; "fatalistic thinking".

Noun

1. Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny.

Date "fatalist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references)

Etymology: Fatalist \Fa"tal*ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression fataliste.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fatalist

Synonyms: fatalistic (adj), determinist (n), predestinationist (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fatalist

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Necessity	Necessarian, necessitarian; fatalist; automaton.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fatalist

English words defined with "fatalist": Destinist ♦ fatalistic. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fatalist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (fatalist), German (fatalist), Romanian (fatalist, fatalistic), Swedish (fatalist), Turkish (fatalist).

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Modern Usage: Fatalist

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Fatalist (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fatalist

Domain	Title
Books	Jack the Fatalist and His Master: A New Translation from the French of D. Diderot (American Univ Studies Series, Ii, Romance Languages & Lit Vol 8) (reference) Jacques le Fatalist et Son Maitre (reference) Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Fatalist (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Fatalist [IMPORT] (reference) Fatalist Ep (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fatalist

"Fatalist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fatalist" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fatalist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fatalist	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fatalist

Language		Translations for "fatalist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fatalist, nënshtrim ndaj fatit. (various references)

Arabic		‏جبري (algebraic, necessitarian, under protest), ‏المؤمن بالقضاء والقدر. (various references)

Bulgarian		фаталист. (various references)

Czech		fatalista. (various references)

Finnish		fatalisti. (various references)

French		fataliste. (various references)

German		Fatalist. (various references)

Greek		μοιρολάτρησ. (various references)

Hebrew		פטליסט. (various references)

Hungarian		fatalista (fatalistic). (various references)

Italian		fatalista. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		運命論者 , 宿命論者 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅくめいろ�"じゃ, う�"めいろ�"しゃ. (various references)

Manx		beoyneyder. (various references)

Pig Latin		atalistfay

Romanian		fatalist (fatalistic). (various references)

Russian		фаталист. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fatalista. (various references)

Spanish		fatalista. (various references)

Swedish		fatalist. (various references)

Turkish		fatalist, kaderci kimse. (various references)

Ukranian		фаталіст. (various references)

Vietnamese		người theo thuyết định mệnh (necessitarian). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fatalist

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fatalist": fatalistic, fatalistically, fatalists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fatalist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fatalis, fataliste, fatals. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fatalist"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fatalist" (pronounced fā"tuli'st)
6	-t u l i' s t	experimentalist.
5	-u l i' s t	dualist, evangelist, gradualist, minimalist, moralist, revivalist, royalist, sensationalist.
4	-l i' s t	backlist, blacklist, checklist, realist, stylist.
3	-i' s t	absurdist, astrophysicist, baptist, bassist, careerist, centrist, chartist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, collectivist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, egotist, essayist, expansionist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, monarchist, monetarist, nativist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, recidivist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, satanist, saxophonist, sexist, soloist, statist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fatalist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-l-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: statal, tafias.
	-3 letters: alfas, alias, alifs, alist, atilt, atlas, fails, fatal, fiats, flats, flits, lifts, litas, stilt, tafia, tails, talas, tilts.
	-4 letters: aals, ails, aits, alas, alfa, alif, alit, alts, fail, fast, fats, fiat, fila, fils, fist, fits, flat, flit, last, lati, lats, lift, list, lits, sail, salt, sati, sial, sift, silt, slat.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-l-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: fatalists.
	+2 letters: factualist, fatalistic, fatalities.
	+3 letters: facilitates, factualists, fantastical, floatations, stagflation.
	+4 letters: facilitators, factualities, stagflations.
	+5 letters: antiformalist, facilitations, fantastically, futilitarians.
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