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English

no-win

Bound to end in failure.

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    Origin

    From no + win.

    From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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    • partEnglishno “Not any.”
      • derivedEnglishits “Belonging to it.”
        • derivedEnglishא
        • derivedEnglishPortland “The largest city in Oregon, United States and the county seat of Multnomah County; named for the ci…”
        • derivedEnglishthe “...because it has already been mentioned, is to be completely specified in the same sentence, or ve…”
        • derivedEnglishcausing
        • partEnglishho “Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.”
        • derivedEnglishWorld “Earth: the Earth (our earth).”
        • derivedEnglishItogon “A municipality of Benguet, Philippines.”
        • derivedEnglishtides
        • derivedEnglishuser “One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (fre…”
        • partEnglishsororo
        • partEnglishit “The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract en…”
        • suffixEnglish-s “Used to form regular plurals of nouns.”
        • suffixEnglish-'s “A possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the noun or noun phrase bearing the marke…”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishno
        • inheritedOld Englishna “no, never”
    • partEnglishwin “To conquer, defeat.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishwinnen
        • inheritedOld Englishwinnan “to labour, swink, toil,”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishwinn
        • inheritedOld Englishwinn “toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishwynne
        • inheritedOld Englishwynn “joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”
      • derivedEnglishwind “Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pr…”
        • inheritedMiddle Englishwynd
        • inheritedMiddle Englishwynden

    Meanings

    adj
    1. Bound to end in failure.

    Sources

    • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
    • Wiktionary: no-win