drop out

Questions about drop out

What does drop out mean?

drop out means "give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for drop out?

Close synonyms include give up, fall by the wayside, drop by the wayside, throw in, throw in the towel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of drop out?

The recorded antonyms are enter.

Is drop out a common word?

drop out is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.