nonstarter

1. 1.

   a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently

   Synonymsfailureloserunsuccessful person

   Broaderunfortunate

   Narrowerbankruptflash in the panflopunderdog
2. 2.

   a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered

   Broaderracehorse

Other forms of nonstarter

plural

nonstarters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nonstarter

What does nonstarter mean?

nonstarter means "a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nonstarter?

nonstarter has 3 syllables: non-star-ter. The stress falls on "star". In IPA it is /nɑnˈstɑɹtɚ/.

What is another word for nonstarter?

Close synonyms include failure, loser, unsuccessful person. 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.

Is nonstarter a common word?

nonstarter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with nonstarter?

1 word rhymes with nonstarter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.