Loser Meaning
/luːzə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
nounSomething of poor quality.
Sentence Examples
How long are you going to be seeing that loser of a boyfriend?
I trust that, in the long run, I will not be a loser.
The project was a loser from the start.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The team that never wins any game is considered a ____ by everyone.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the end, there can be only one winner and one ____ in the highly competitive sports championship.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2012, Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, “Fatherhood”, in Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 203:
"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."
— 1999, Larry Medsker, Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications, →ISBN, page 192:
"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."
— 2004, Marianna S. Katona, Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings, →ISBN:
"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."
— 2009, Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now:
"You have to think of yourself as an already amazing person who's hiding behind extra weight—a superhero in a disguise. If you follow the program, […] change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weight loser.”"
— 2010, Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time, →ISBN, page 109:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The team that never wins any game is considered a ____ by everyone.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
In the end, there can be only one winner and one ____ in the highly competitive sports championship.