nonstarter

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A project that has no chance of success.
    — The problem with the CRFB and CBO ideas is that they would be nonstarters politically.
  2. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.
  3. A loser; a person who is bound to fail.
    — But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair.

词形变化

nonstarters plural

词源

Etymology tree
English non-
English starter
English nonstarter
From non- + starter.
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