Meaning

A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive..

Definitions by Sense

1. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
2. Something of poor quality.
3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
4. (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
5. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
6. 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).
7. (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.

Example Sentences

In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.

He was always a good loser.

That guy is a born loser!

I'm a constant loser in love.

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 ethic Mike had.

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.

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.

You're counting on this insurance company to pay you a check many years in the future. But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser.

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• losers

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Use loser when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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