QUITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quitter mean? 

• QUITTER (noun)
  The noun QUITTER has 1 sense:

1. a person who gives up too easily

  Familiarity information: QUITTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUITTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who gives up too easily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("quitter" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quitter"):

abdicator (one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility)

dropout (someone who quits school before graduation)

apostate; deserter; ratter; recreant; renegade; turncoat (a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.)

Derivation:

quit (give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat)