also-ran [awl-soh-ran]
Main Entry:
also-ran [awl-soh-ran]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unsuccessful challenger
Synonyms: defeated player, failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful candidate, unsuccessful person
Notes: in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran
Main Entry: failure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who does not succeed
Synonyms: also-ran, bankrupt, beat*, born loser, bum, castaway, deadbeat, defaulter, derelict, disappointment, dud, flop, good-for-nothing, has-been, incompetent, insolvent, loafer, loser, lumpy, might-have-been, moocher, no-good, nobody, nonperformer, prodigal, turkey, underachiever, washout
Antonyms: achiever, success
Main Entry: loser
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person, thing that fails
Synonyms: also-ran, deadbeat, defeated, disadvantaged, down-and-outer, dud, failure, flop, flunkee, has-been, underdog, underprivileged
Antonyms: achiever, success, winner
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Main Entry: failure
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
short, abortive, addle, aground, all up with, at fault, bankrupt, befooled, bootless, borne down, broken, broken down, capsized, cast away, crossed, dashed, dead beat, defeated, deficient, destroyed, disconcerted, dished, done for, done up, downtrodden, failing, flambe, foiled, foundered, fruitless, frustrated, grounded, hobbling, hoist on with one's own petard, in a sorry plight, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, insufficient, knocked on the head, lame, left in the lurch, lost, minus, nonsuited, oligophrenic, out of depth, out of one's reckoning, overborne, overwhelmed, perfunctory, played out, ruined, ruined root and branch, sacrificed, shipwrecked, short of, still, struck down, stultified, successless, swamped, thrown away, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, tripping, unattained, unavailing, uncompleted, undone, unfortunate, unhinged, unhorsed, unreached, unsuccessful, victimized, wide of the mark, wrecked
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