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Synonyms for underdog
ˈʌn dərˌdɔg, -ˌdɒgun·der·dog

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  1. underdognoun

    Antonyms:
    top dog, sure bet, favourite, favorite, safe bet

  2. underdognoun

    Antonyms:
    favourite, safe bet, sure bet, top dog, favorite

  3. underdognoun

    Antonyms:
    top dog, safe bet, favorite, sure bet, favourite

  4. underdognoun

    Antonyms:
    top dog, favourite, safe bet, sure bet, favorite

Princeton's WordNet

  1. underdognoun

    one at a disadvantage and expected to lose

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  1. List of paraphrases for "underdog":

    outsider, loser, fairy, oppressed

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#8521fairy
#15262loser
#24120outsider
#24815oppressed
#27120underdog

How to use underdog in a sentence?

  1. Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson:

    We made it to the World Cup and we're really happy about that, but we didn't quite anticipate how many fans we would gain all over the world. But in sports in general everyone loves the underdog, we are a fairytale story, a nation of 350,000 people on this big stage is quite something, and we hear it from fans all over the world.

  2. Justin Hochberg:

    It's always been an underdog group of people, people that spent seven hours shooting green screen and getting their makeup done, and are never going to be celebrated by The Academy Awards or the Golden Globes or any of that stuff, yet they all come together, in one place, once a year. They don't do it because it's press, awards or anything like that. They do it for the love of it.

  3. Vin Diesel:

    This franchise was born from the pavement, from the concrete, the world just championed this underdog to a place where it has already surpassed all of these other franchises. But the franchise has a soul, and that soul has to rest.

  4. Meredith Scardino:

    I think the spirit of the show about trappy underdog women in their 40s going up against a behemoth and trying to do something hard and a little bit crazy, that will continue.

  5. Edgar Watson Howe:

    The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.


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