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defeatist

How many syllables in defeatist?

  3 syllables

Divide defeatist into syllables:   de-feat-ist
How to pronounce defeatist:   dih-fee-tist
How to say defeatist:

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What rhymes with defeatist

3 syllables
  • elitist
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