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Nonstarter

Definitions: Nonstarter

Nonstarter

Noun

1. A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Nonstarter

Synonyms: failure (n), loser (n), unsuccessful person (n). (additional references)
Antonym: achiever (n). (additional references)

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nonstarter

Derivations

Words beginning with "nonstarter": nonstarters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nonstarter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonstatic, nontarget, Norstadt, nostratic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nonstarter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nonstarter" (pronounced nÄnstÄ"rter)
6-s t Ä" r t erstarter.
5-t Ä" r t ertartar, Tarter.
4-Ä" r t erbarter, Carter, charter, darter, garter, martyr, Sartor, smarter.
3-r t erCourter, exporter, headquarter, hindquarter, importer, mortar, porter, quarter, reporter, shorter, sorter, supporter, transporter.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nonstarter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: antrorse, entrants, resonant, rostrate, torrents.

-3 letters: atoners, attorns, entrant, errants, natrons, natters, nonarts, notates, ranters, rattens, ratters, rattons, restart, retorts, roaster, rotates, rotters, senator, serrano, snorter, starter, stentor, stertor, tanners, tannest, tenants, toaster, tonners, torrent, treason.

-4 letters: anenst, antres, arrest, arseno, astern, atoner, atones, attorn, errant, natron, natter, nestor, nonart, nonets, notate, noters.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-n-o-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: nonstarters, remonstrant.

 

+2 letters: northeastern, remonstrants.

 

+3 letters: concentrators, introgressant, remonstrantly, remonstrating, remonstration, renaturations, retranslation.

 

+4 letters: containerports, enterogastrone, interrelations, interrogations, introgressants, macronutrients, pretournaments, reconcentrates, reintegrations, remonstrations, reorientations, representation, repristination, retranslations, transitoriness.

 

+5 letters: confraternities, enterogastrones, fraternizations, intergradations, interpretations, nonbarbiturates, preterminations, redintegrations, representations, repristinations, transliteration.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nonstarter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 73 74 61 72 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    -.    ...    -    .-    .-.    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0073 0074 0061 0072 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48818085866784867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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