What is another word for dropouts?

Pronunciation: [dɹˈɒpa͡ʊts] (IPA)

Dropouts, referring to individuals who leave their education or career without completing it, has several synonyms that can be used interchangeably to convey the same meaning. Some of the synonyms for dropouts are non-graduates, quitters, non-completers, washouts, and failures. These terms are often used in various contexts to describe individuals who drop out of school, college, or work. Although these terms have a negative connotation, they are widely used to describe the people who give up on their education or career due to various reasons such as financial difficulties, family responsibilities, health issues, or lack of motivation.

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What are the hypernyms for Dropouts?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Dropouts

Sure enough, as soon as Habrunt had a chance to make his morning rounds to see that the affairs of the Master's Household were all in order for the day and that the slaves were all well and truly at their duties, or that the inevitable one or two dropouts had given him sufficient excuse and been temporarily reassigned one way or another to easier work, he came personally for Si'Wren.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
He came along just as I was noticing that infinite stream of wonderful guys had dwindled down to relationship dropouts, men with distant eyes and former wives in other states.
"Life Blood"
Thomas Hoover

Famous quotes with Dropouts

  • The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
    Peter S. Jennison
  • Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!
    KAY ARTHUR
  • Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
    Benjamin Barber

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