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nonstarter

nonstarter noun: a project that has no chance of success.

Noun

nonstarter (plural nonstarters)

  1. A project that has no chance of success.
    • The problem with the CRFB and CBO ideas is that they would be nonstarters politically.2024 December 28, Jonathan Nicholson, “Yes, There Are Ways To Cut The Budget Deficit. 'DOGE' Hasn’t Found Them So Far.”, in HuffPost
  2. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.
  3. A loser; a person who is bound to fail.
    • But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair.1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 225

nonstarter meaning in Tamil and Kannada

nonstarter in Tamil

பள்ளி வகுப்பைத் தொடங்காதவர்கள்

nonstarter in Kannada

ಪರಿಣಾಮಕಾರಿಯಲ್ಲದ ಯೋಜನೆ, ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗದ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ

Forms of nonstarter

pluralnonstarters

Origin of nonstarter

From non- + starter.

Questions about nonstarter

What does nonstarter mean?
Nonstarter means a project that has no chance of success.
What is nonstarter in Tamil?
Nonstarter in Tamil is பள்ளி வகுப்பைத் தொடங்காதவர்கள். See Nonstarter meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nonstarter?
Nonstarter is a noun.
What is the plural of nonstarter?
The plural of nonstarter is nonstarters.

Words near nonstarter in the dictionary

  1. nonstarches
  2. nonstarchy
  3. nonstardom
  4. nonstarred
  5. nonstars
  6. nonstarter
  7. nonstarters
  8. nonstarting
  9. nonstarved
  10. nonstarving
  11. nonstate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonstarter (page history and authors); nonstarter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nonstarter (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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