dead lossnoun [ S ]
uk/ˌded ˈlɒs/us/ˌded ˈlɑːs/informalan activity or process that is not at all effective or successful:
Yesterday's meeting was a dead loss - nothing was decided.
a person who is not successful or useful:
I was a dead loss at languages at school.
John was a dead loss - he just stood there and did nothing.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- futile
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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