washed upadjective
uk/ˌwɒʃt ˈʌp/us/ˌwɑːʃt ˈʌp/If you are washed up, you are no longer successful and you have no chance of success in the future:
The tragedy of being a dancer is that you're all washed up by the time you're 35.
[ before noun ] a bunch of washed-up celebrities
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuccessful (people and things)
- abortive
- achiever
- barren
- be dead in the water idiom
- botched
- counterproductive
- flatline
- frustrated
- futile
- go/get/head nowhere idiom
- inauspicious
- lame duck
- rope
- small-time
- stillborn
- struggling
- the doldrums
- unavailing
- unglued
- vainly
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