loser
/luːzə(ɹ)//luzɚ/
loser noun: a person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
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.
- He was always a good loser.
- Antonyms:
- winner
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- That guy is a born loser!
- I'm a constant loser in love.
- 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
- But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal.2004, Marianna S. Katona, Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings, →ISBN
- 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
- Hardway bets are losers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers. For instance, a Hardway bet on a 4 is a loser if the dice show as 3 and 1. Betting on a Hard 8 is a loser if the dice are rolled as a 5 and 3, or a 6 and 2. Naturally, if the 7 is rolled before the...2001, Peter Svoboda, Beating the Casinos at Their Own Game, Square One Publishers, →ISBN, page 57
- A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
- He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.
Proper noun capitalized: Loser
Loser (plural Losers)
- A surname from German.
loser meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
loser in Hindi
- person who fails to win
- हारनेवाला hārnevālā
loser in Tamil
- இழப்பவன், தோற்பவன், நட்டவாளி
loser in Marathi
- हरणारा
loser in Urdu
- ہارنے والا
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- loser in Telugu
- ఓడినవాడు ōḍinavāḍu, పోగొట్టుకొన్నవాడు pōgoṭṭukonnavāḍu
- loser in Malayalam
- പരാജിതൻ, തോറ്റവൻ, തോൽവി പറ്റിയവൻ, തോറ്റയാൾ
- loser in Kannada
- ಸೋಲುವವ, ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗದವ, ಕಳೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳುವವ, ನಷ್ಟ ಹೊಂದುವವ
- loser in Punjabi
- ਹਾਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ
- loser in Gujarati
- હારનાર, હારનારો, ગુમાવનાર
- loser in Odia
- ପରାଜିତ ବ୍ଯ଼କ୍ତି
- loser in Nepali
- हारेको, हारेका
- loser in Arabic
- خَاسِر ḵāsir, فَاشِل fāšil
- loser in Indonesian
- pecundang, bedebah
- loser in Persian
- بازنده bâzande
- loser in Vietnamese
- bại giả
- loser in Myanmar
- လူဇာ luja
Examples of loser in a sentence
- He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack.2012, Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, “Fatherhood”, in Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 203:
- But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser.2009, Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now:
- If you follow the program, […] change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weight loser.”2010, Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time, →ISBN, page 109:
- Hardway bets are losers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers.2001, Peter Svoboda, Beating the Casinos at Their Own Game, Square One Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:
Synonyms of loser
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Forms of loser
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | losers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Losers |
Origin of loser
From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
Borrowed from German Löser.
Words formed from loser
Phrases with loser
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Questions about loser
- What does loser mean?
- Loser means a person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- What is loser in Hindi?
- Loser in Hindi is हारनेवाला (hārnevālā). See Loser meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use loser in a sentence?
- He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack.
- What part of speech is loser?
- Loser can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce loser?
- Loser is pronounced /luːzə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of loser?
- The plural of loser is losers.
Words near loser in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: loser (page history and authors); Loser (page history and authors); loser (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loser (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loser (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ఓడినవాడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); loser (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); loser (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); loser (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loser (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loser (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); loser (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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