unsuccessful person

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfailurelosernonstarter

   Broaderunfortunate

   Narrowerbankruptflash in the panflopunderdog

Questions about unsuccessful person

What does unsuccessful person mean?

unsuccessful person means "a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently".

What is another word for unsuccessful person?

Close synonyms include failure, loser, nonstarter. 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 unsuccessful person a common word?

unsuccessful person 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.