loser.
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
Meaning & usage
A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.
He was always a good loser.
Something of poor quality.
A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
That guy is a born loser!
I'm a constant loser in love.
A contemptible or unfashionable person.
One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
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).
A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.