QUITTER Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

quitter

noun

Definition of quitter

as in coward

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as in dropout

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Recent Examples of quitter Now the Dolphins were being called quitters and tankers -- players who had given up on their coaches, their season and themselves. — Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025 But Salah, who travelled several hours a day just to reach training as a youngster, is no quitter. — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 Alas, the thing about being a true fan is, no quitters allowed. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025 And the most unattractive thing in the world to me is a quitter. — EW.com, 30 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for quitter

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Noun

But Coyote has hitched his hopes for the mammoth case upon a man who could only be called a coward.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
The pundits feasted on her neutrality, most venomously Megyn Kelly, who called her a coward.

— Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of coward

Noun

Noah Shinn, a 23-year-old Northeastern University dropout, launched the product to a small test group earlier this year, and his company is already worth billions of dollars.

— Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2026
The Lorena Street Elementary student who once haunted the stacks has also undergone big transformations — the former high school dropout now has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

— Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of dropout

Noun

Scar then proceeds to desolate the kingdom, with the help of hyenas, while Simba, in exile, grows up to become a pleasure-hunting, grub-eating sluggard.

— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 July 2019
Clearly, supervision at your job is lax, and your sluggard classmate is taking advantage of that.

— Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017

Definition of sluggard

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But the star here is the dum biryani—in vegetarian, chicken, and goat varieties—that comes shrouded beneath a crust of bread.

— Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
Other experts aren’t necessarily convinced this announcement will change much inhe ta galactic game of chicken.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of chicken

Noun

This measure is a craven, deceptive, regressive, and destructive push to gut local control and services, and hand power to a barely accountable central government in Tallahassee.

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2026
In 2024, The Onion purchased Infowars, the conspiracy website born of the craven lunatic/Sandy Hook shooting denier Alex Jones.

— Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026

Definition of craven

Noun

Their name exudes the essence of an idler and slacker, but women’s loafers themselves are quite the opposite.

— Gaby Keiderling, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
This represents the loss of an idea of what the capital should represent, the removal of a place that was an idler’s haven.

— Anandi Mishra, The Atlantic, 30 July 2022

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