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no-win

adj

Etymology

From no + win.

  1. derived from *wenh₁-✻ — “to strive, wish, desire, love”
  2. inherited from *winnaną✻ — “to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”
  3. inherited from *winnan✻
  4. inherited from winnan — “to labour, swink, toil,”
  5. inherited from winnen
  6. compounded as no-win — “no + win”

Definitions

  1. Bound to end in failure.

    • no-win situation
    • We're in a no-win situation: if we move, they kill us; if we stay, we starve.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for no-win. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA