different between loser vs loss

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^(key): /lu?z?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /luz?/
• Rhymes: -u?z?(?)

Noun

loser (plural losers)

1. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.

   Antonym: winner

2. Something of poor quality.
3. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.

   Synonym: failure

4. (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.

   Synonyms: crumb, (archaic) losel, louse; see also Thesaurus:worthless person
5. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
6. (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.

Derived terms

Related terms

• losel

Translations

Anagrams

• Osler, Rosel, Soler, eorls, lo-res, lores, orles, relos, roles, rôles, slore, soler, sorel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English loser.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: lo?ser

Noun

loser m (plural losers, diminutive losertje n)

1. loser

Synonyms

• mislukkeling

French

Alternative forms

• looser, looseur, louseur

Etymology

From English loser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu.zœ?/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /lu.z?/

Noun

loser m (plural losers)

1. (colloquial) loser

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lo?z?/

Adjective

loser

1. comparative degree of lose
2. inflection of lose:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

loser m

1. indefinite plural of los

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-Germanic *lus? (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”). Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /l?s/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /l?s/
• Rhymes: -?s, -??s

Noun

loss (countable and uncountable, plural losses)

1. (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.

   Antonym: gain

2. (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
3. (countable) Something that has been destroyed or ruined.

4. (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.

   Antonyms: win, victory

5. (countable) The death of a person or animal.

6. (uncountable) The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.

7. (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.

   Antonym: profit

8. (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

Usage notes

• The possessive of loss is often constructed as loss of rather than 's loss.
• loss is often the subject of the verbs make or take. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

Related terms

• lose

Translations

Etymology 2

Pronunciation spelling of lost, representing African-American Vernacular English.

Verb

loss

1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost

Anagrams

• SOLs, Sols, sols

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schloss.

Noun

loss (genitive lossi, partitive lossi)

1. castle

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

loss

1. imperative of losse

Swedish

Etymology

Like Danish los and Norwegian loss, from Low German or Dutch los, from Middle Low German respectively Middle Dutch los, sidoform of Low German l?s respectively Dutch loos, cognate with Swedish lös.

Adjective

loss

1. (indeclinable, predicatively, adverbially) loose, untied, off

Anagrams

• sols