Word.ws English Dictionary

sadster

sadster noun: a socially inadequate or undesirable person; a saddo or loser.

Noun

sadster (plural sadsters)

  1. (UK, slang) A socially inadequate or undesirable person; a saddo or loser.
    • You see, when it comes to buying a car, people who'd haggle with the milkman turn into sadsters with 'empty my wallet' writ large on their foreheads.1995, Autocar, volume 202, page 48
    • I'm not a friendless sadster, just looking for some good company & see what gives from there!1999, nice bloke, “Decent, witty, sober, passionate man available”, in uk.local.essex (Usenet)

Forms of sadster

pluralsadsters

Origin of sadster

From sad + -ster.

Questions about sadster

What does sadster mean?
Sadster means a socially inadequate or undesirable person; a saddo or loser.
What part of speech is sadster?
Sadster is a noun.
What is the plural of sadster?
The plural of sadster is sadsters.

Words near sadster in the dictionary

  1. sadsack
  2. sadsacks
  3. Sadsadan
  4. Sadsaran
  5. sadsome
  6. sadster
  7. sadsters
  8. SADT
  9. SADTs
  10. Sadu
  11. Sadurni

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sadster (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-sadster.ogg.

Cite this entry: “sadster.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sadster. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.