| Main Entry: | dark horse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remote possibility |
Synonyms: |
also-ran, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, little chance, little opportunity, long shot, outside chance, outside shot, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prognosis, poor prospect, sleeper, slim chance, small chance, stalking horse, underdog, unexpected winner, unknown, unknown quantity, unlikelihood, unlikely winner, upsetter |
| Main Entry: | failure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not succeed |
Synonyms: |
also-ran, bankrupt, beat*, born loser, bum, castaway, deadbeat, defaulter, derelict, disappointment, dud, flop, good-for-nothing, has-been, incompetent, insolvent, loafer, loser, lumpy, might-have-been, moocher, no-good, nobody, nonperformer, prodigal, turkey, underachiever, washout |
Antonyms: |
achiever, success |
| Main Entry: | loser |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, thing that fails |
Synonyms: |
also-ran, deadbeat, defeated, disadvantaged, down-and-outer, dud, failure, flop, flunkee, has-been, underdog, underprivileged |
Antonyms: |
achiever, success, winner |
| Main Entry: | also-ran |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsuccessful challenger |
Synonyms: |
defeated player, failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful candidate, unsuccessful person |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Main Entry: | failure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
short, abortive, addle, aground, all up with, at fault, bankrupt, befooled, bootless, borne down, broken, broken down, capsized, cast away, crossed, dashed, dead beat, defeated, deficient, destroyed, disconcerted, dished, done for, done up, downtrodden, failing, flambe, foiled, foundered, fruitless, frustrated, grounded, hobbling, hoist on with one's own petard, in a sorry plight, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, insufficient, knocked on the head, lame, left in the lurch, lost, minus, nonsuited, oligophrenic, out of depth, out of one's reckoning, overborne, overwhelmed, perfunctory, played out, ruined, ruined root and branch, sacrificed, shipwrecked, short of, still, struck down, stultified, successless, swamped, thrown away, thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends, tripping, unattained, unavailing, uncompleted, undone, unfortunate, unhinged, unhorsed, unreached, unsuccessful, victimized, wide of the mark, wrecked
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