goner

[gaw-ner, gon-er]

noun

Informal.

1. a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.

goner

/ ˈɡɒnə /

noun

1. slang,  a person or thing beyond help or recovery, esp a person who is dead or about to die

Word History and Origins

Origin of goner¹

First recorded in 1840–50; gone + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But even if Sir Keir was a goner, that manifesto would still be something Labour could point to.

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"The whole family basically thought I was a goner," he wrote.

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Then, just before 11am, as foreign office minister Stephen Doughty stood up in the Commons to answer an urgent question on Mandelson, my emails pinged - and Lord Mandelson was a goner.

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When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.

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And they have concluded the number, but not the policy itself, is an albatross around their neck - and so it is a goner.

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Related Words

• desperate 
• forlorn 
• helpless 
• impossible 
• pointless 
• sad 
• tragic 
• useless