also-ran

unsuccessful, successless; failing, tripping; at fault; unfortunate., abortive, addle, stillborn; fruitless, bootless; ineffectual, ineffective; inefficient (impotent); insufficient; unavailing (useless); of no effect., aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked., lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.