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loserish

loserish adjective: resembling or characteristic of a loser (contemptible person or habitual failure).

Adjective

loserish (comparative more loserish, superlative most loserish)

  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a loser (contemptible person or habitual failure).
    • […] the ascent of a kind of stubborn geekiness that doubtless reflected a big chunk of MTV's demographics: young, male, white, and vaguely loserish, if only in their own tortured teenage minds.1999, Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Stars don't stand still in the sky: music and myth, page 92
    • My friends might be insulted and I'd feel loserish and left out and otherwise controlled by my diet.2004, Courtney Rubin, The Weight-Loss Diaries, page 71

Forms of loserish

comparativemore loserish
superlativemost loserish

Origin of loserish

From loser + -ish.

Words formed from loserish

Questions about loserish

What does loserish mean?
Loserish means resembling or characteristic of a loser (contemptible person or habitual failure).
What part of speech is loserish?
Loserish is an adjective.

Words near loserish in the dictionary

  1. loserdom
  2. loserest
  3. loserhood
  4. loserino
  5. loserinos
  6. loserish
  7. loserishness
  8. loserless
  9. loserly
  10. loserness
  11. losers

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