# loser
## English
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /luːzə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /luzɚ/
** Audio (Mid-Atlantic US):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)

### Noun

loser (plural losers)
* A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
    Antonym: winner
    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.
    Synonym: failure
    That guy is a born loser!
    I'm a constant loser in love.
* (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
    Synonyms: crumb, (archaic) losel, louse; see also Thesaurus:worthless person
** 2012, Frank Shamrock, Charles Fleming, “Fatherhood”, in Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 203: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.
* One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
** 1999, Larry Medsker, Lakhmi C. Jain, Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications, →ISBN, page 192: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.
** 2004, Marianna S. Katona, Tales from the Berlin Wall: Recollections of Frequent Crossings, →ISBN: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.
** 2005, Maggie Greenwood-Robinson, The Biggest Loser: The Weight Loss Program to Transform Your Body, Health and Life, →ISBN:
** 2009, Jane Bryant Quinn, Making the Most of Your Money Now: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.
** 2010, Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time, →ISBN, page 109: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.”
* 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).
** 1988, Alice Taylor, To School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood, Brandon Ltd, →ISBN, page 58:A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all.
** 2001, Peter Svoboda, Beating the Casinos at Their Own Game‎, Square One Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:Hardway bets are losers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers. For instance, a Hardway bet on a 4 is a loser if the dice show as 3 and 1. Betting on a Hard 8 is a loser if the dice are rolled as a 5 and 3, or a 6 and 2. Naturally, if the 7 is rolled before the Hardway number shows, the bet is also a loser.
** 2021 December 17, Eric Ralph, “SpaceX to replicate Starbase, build multiple Starship launch pads in Florida”, in Teslarati‎, retrieved 2022-08-07:In terms of betting on outcomes, Mars is a clear loser.
* (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
    He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.

#### Hyponyms

* (person who fails): wooden spooner, wooden spoonist (last-place finisher)

#### Derived terms

* bad loser
* born loser
* first loser
* good loser
* hard loser
* loser cruiser
* loser sign
* lucky loser
* money-loser
* poor loser
* sore loser
* three-time loser
* two-time loser

#### Related terms

* losel

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Leros, lores, Roels, Roles, soler, sorel, slore, roles, Sorel, Soler, rôles, eorls, relos, lo-res, orles, Rosel, Osler

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English loser.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: lo‧ser

### Noun

loser m (plural losers, diminutive losertje n)
* loser

#### Synonyms

* mislukkeling

## French
### Alternative forms

* looser, looseur, louseur

### Etymology

Borrowed from English loser.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lu.zœʁ/
* (Quebec) IPA: /lu.zɚ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

loser m (plural losers)
* (colloquial) loser

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈloːzɐ/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

loser
* comparative degree of lose
* inflection of lose:
** strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
** strong genitive/dative feminine singular
** strong genitive plural

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

loser m
* indefinite plural of los