Adjectives for defeat

Defeat adjectives are listed in this post. Each word below can often be found in front of the noun defeat in the same sentence. This reference page can help answer the question what are some adjectives commonly used for describing DEFEAT.

absolute, actual, american, apparent, arab, austrian, bad, bitter, bloody, british, calamitous, catastrophic, certain, complete, confederate, constant, costly, decisive, democratic, devastating, diplomatic, dire, disastrous, disgraceful

double, dreadful, earlier, early, easy, electoral, embarrassing, english, entire, eventual, fatal, final, first, former, french, fresh, further, general, german, glorious, great, greater, greatest, heavy

historic, honorable, hopeless, humiliating, ignominious, immediate, imminent, impending, inevitable, inglorious, initial, irretrievable, japanese, last, late, long, major, massive, memorable, military, miserable, moral, more, mortifying

narrow, national, naval, nazi, near, new, only, ottoman, outright, overwhelming, own, partial, past, persian, personal, political, possible, present, previous, probable, public, quick, rapid, real

recent, repeated, republican, roman, ruinous, russian, sad, sanguinary, second, serious, severe, shameful, sharp, signal, single, social, sore, soviet, spanish, spiritual, stinging, strategic, stunning, subsequent

such, sure, swift, tactical, temporary, terrible, third, thorough, total, tragic, turkish, ultimate, unexpected, unfortunate, union, utter, virtual, worse, worst

Hope this word list had the adjective used with defeat you were looking for. Additional describing words / adjectives that describe / adjectives of various nouns can be found in the other pages on this website.

Please add more adjectives to make this list more complete:

  



Learn More

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases