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Definition of Negativist

1. Noun. Someone who refuses to do what is asked or does the opposite of what is asked.

2. Noun. Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions.

Definition of Negativist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negativist

negative transference negative verb negative verbs negative zero negatived negatively negatively bathmotropic negatively charged negatively dromotropic negativeness

negativenesses negatives negativing negativism negativisms negativist (current term) negativistic negativists negativities negativity

negativization negativizations negativize negativized negativizes negativizing negaton negatons negator negators

Literary usage of Negativist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in by Jack Fruchtman (1983)
"At times, Price also subscribed to the more traditional, negativist view of destruction and upheaval. But like Priestley, he combined the two traditions, ..."

2. The Wayward Welfare State by Roger A. Freeman (1981)
"It is what Lance Liebman called "the negativist reaction to the Promethean fallacy . . . the new pessimism that exists concerning the human capacity to ..."

3. Essays on Freethinking and Plainspeaking by Leslie Stephen (1907)
"A Positivist, or a negativist, or a materialist may find some utterance for his emotions in the dialect of his sect; he may put together some kind of raft ..."

4. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"... Nagarjuna, who lived a little later than Ashvaghosha, possibly in the second century AD He represents the negativist or Nihilist school of ..."

5. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"... Nagarjuna, who lived a little later than Ashvaghosha, possibly in the second century AD He represents the negativist or Nihilist school of ..."

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