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loser English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word loser once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning loser meaning

What does loser mean?

Definitions in simple English

loser Noun

— A loser is someone that did not win a competition. In sports, a loser would be one that did not come in first place.

— Someone that is very often failing or being unsuccessful in life. He is such a loser!

loser

— noun a contestant who loses the contest

— noun a gambler who loses a bet

— noun (= failure) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

Synonyms loser synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as loser?

loser English » English

failure

underdog

defeated person

also-ran

unsuccessful person

nonstarter

good-for-nothing

who loses

vanquished

unfortunate

slacker

owner of a lost article

never-was

male virgin

lonely heart

lemon

geek

flop

easily trapped person

defeated

coward

bum

beaten

a defeated person

Topics loser topics

What do people use loser to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports

• What words are used of the outcome of a game?
  win lose tie defeat become champion win the prize finish the race finish well winner loser
• What are the winners and losers called?
  winner champion loser first place winner second place runner up second runner up

Social behavior Conflict War

Lose a fight

• What words refer to the person or group that loses?
  loser losing side defeated army

Examples loser examples

How do I use loser in a sentence?

Simple sentences

What a loser!

He is a good loser.

The laugh is always on the loser.

He's a bad loser.

He's a sore loser.

She's a bad loser.

This guy is a loser.

This girl is a loser.

You're a loser.

Tom is a loser.

I told you Tom was a loser.

I trust that, in the long run, I will not be a loser.

If the loser smiled the winner will lose the thrill of victory.

I'm a real loser in English.

I'm a loser.

He's nothing but a scumbag and a loser.

Movie subtitles

A loser.

The loser has to be the slave.

My future father-in-law has never backed a loser. You know that.

You're not a good loser, Miss Loxi.

I shall be a good loser, Miss Loxi, and offer Steve my congratulations.

Loser to vanish from the scene.

Till he does anything. Nick, he's a three-time loser now.

Well, you're the loser.

Stop acting like a stupid loser and just show up tonight.

He's a four-time loser.

Then he'll be a four-time loser like me.

Loser goes first.

For a three-time loser who's been out only a week. he's begging for a fourth conviction.

You're a three-time loser.

I'm a three-time loser.

I'm all washed up, a loser.

I'll get the smelling salts for the loser.

You are a good loser, Mr. Holmes.

Sore loser!

Follow me, loser!

But you weren't the real loser.

Nick doesn't want him anymore. Why would we hire a loser like you?

Seven, makes him a loser. - Heh.

I'm all washed up, a loser. Discipline?

And to you men, all I can say is that I hope the loser will have the decency to join the Foreign Legion.

Well, there's no need for the loser to go all the way to Siberia, you know?

Why don't you be a good loser and leave?

A consolation prize for the loser?

Loser?

You act like a loser!

A very plucky loser!

YOU'RE NOT A VERY GOOD LOSER, MY DEAR.

AND WHEN YOU'RE REALLY IN LOVE YOU CAN'T BE A GOOD LOSER.

Be a good loser, Professor.

Your friend looks like a loser.

News and current affairs

Everyone seems to be a loser, even if some are more affected than others.

The radical loser is the kind of young man who feels victimized by an unfeeling, uncaring world.

In the past, the big loser from the EU system, in budgetary terms, was the UK; for while agriculture accounted for two thirds of all EU spending, the UK had a small farm sector, and therefore received small farm payments.

Once a radical loser is in the mood to kill, any reason will do.

It is especially ironic that, in stark contrast to his own rhetoric, Bush's call for a Middle East peace conference is a call to wage war against the party, Hamas, that won a democratic election, and to make peace with the loser, Fatah.

Bush's gamble was a loser from the start, generating costly results - mainly for the US, but for the rest of the world, too - for years to come.

Even the history of the circus is focused on such a pairing: the vain, dignified White Clown and Augustus the Fool, the humble loser who is kicked in the pants by his stiff, pompous partner.

Whatever form the surrender takes, Greece will not be the only loser.

But there is one great source of optimism: today Germany is the loser in Europe, viewed by the French and even Italians as the losers-overweight and immobilized by bureaucracy and regulation.

Saddam Hussein--dead or on the run--is, of course, the Iraq war's biggest loser.

In a second vote, the election's loser was crowned the winner.

But this is a loser's game unless something can be done to reduce recruitment.

Four winners and one clear loser emerged from the first round.

The clear loser in the first round is the leader of the extreme-right Jean-Marie Le Pen.

COPENHAGEN - Common sense was an early loser in the scorching battle over the reality of man-made global warming.

A big loser here is energy efficiency.

But the questions on everyone's lips are whether the loser of the recount will accept the result, and whether Taiwan's young democracy can survive this tumult?

The biggest loser from the global financial crisis, in China's view, is Uncle Sam.

With an ever-larger military machine backed by village-level militias, civil society has been the main loser.

A last-ditch diplomatic solution appears unlikely, given that the nuclear question plays a decisive role in the Iranian regime's factional struggles, in which anyone favoring compromise can be considered the loser.

But, contrary to what Putin seems to believe, neither Europe nor Ukraine is likely to be the biggest loser in Russia's effort to redirect its gas exports.