loser
/luzɚ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
noun
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).
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."
Etymology
From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /luzɚ/