| Main Entry: | moocher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
Synonyms: |
alms person, almsman, almswoman, bankrupt, cadger, dependent, down-and-out, guttersnipe, indigent, mendicant, pauper, poor person, poverty-stricken person, street person, suppliant, vagrant, ward of state |
| Main Entry: | deadbeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freeloader |
Synonyms: |
bum, debtor, leech, loafer, moocher, parasite, sponge |
| Main Entry: | do-nothing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lazy person |
Synonyms: |
bum, clock watcher, couch potato, couch potato, deadbeat, good-for-nothing, goof-off, goof-off, idler, laggard, layabout, lazy person, lazybones, loafer, lotus eater, lounger, malingerer, moocher, shirker, slacker, sloth, sponger |
| 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: | lounge lizard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social parasite |
Synonyms: |
cadger, freeloader, idle man, moocher, sponger |
| Main Entry: | freeloader |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | someone who takes advantage |
Synonyms: |
barnacle, leech, moocher, parasite, sponge |
| Main Entry: | cadger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beggar |
Synonyms: |
bum, freeloader, mendicant, mooch, moocher, scrounger, sponge, sponger |
| 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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