looser
UK/ˈluːsə/US/ˈlusɚ/
looser is the comparative form of loose.
looser is the misspelling of loser.
Meaning of loose
Adjective
loose (comparative looser, superlative loosest)
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel.
- Synonyms:
- unfastened, free, untethered
- Not held or packaged together.
- You can buy apples in a pack, but they are cheaper loose.
- Synonyms:
- separate, unpackaged
- Not under control.
- The dog is loose again.
- Not fitting closely.
- I wear loose clothes when it is hot.
- Synonyms:
- baggy
- Not compact.
- It is difficult walking on loose gravel.
- Synonyms:
- diffuse
- Relaxed.
- She danced with a loose flowing movement.
- Synonyms:
- loose-limbed
Meaning of loser
Noun
loser (plural losers)
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.
- Antonyms:
- winner
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- That guy is a born loser!
- Synonyms:
- failure
- A contemptible or unfashionable person.
- Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work...2012, Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, “Fatherhood”, in Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 203
- Synonyms:
- crumb, losel, louse, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.1999, Larry Medsker, Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications, →ISBN, page 192
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all.1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 58
Noun
looser (plural loosers)
- One who looses, who sets loose or frees.
- Therefore we cannot but infer that they did not understand the promise of their Lord as uttered in a sense at variance with the established forms of language, as conveying the doctrine which the clerical binders and loosers of later ages teach.1844, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church
- Loosers of topsails and courses, and men stationed at boom tricing-lines, […]1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship
Forms of looser
| plural | loosers |
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Origin of looser
From loose + -er.
Questions about looser
- What does looser mean?
- Looser means one who looses, who sets loose or frees.
- What is looser the comparative form of?
- Looser is the comparative form of loose.
- What part of speech is looser?
- Looser is a noun.
- How do you pronounce looser?
- Looser is pronounced /ˈluːsə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of looser?
- The plural of looser is loosers.
Words near looser in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: looser (page history and authors); loose (page history and authors); loser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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