Gonner

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person or thing that is certain to die, be ruined, or be lost beyond any hope of rescue
2. Someone or something that has no chance of surviving, escaping, or recovering from a dire situation
3. An individual regarded as finished, doomed, or beyond saving in a perilous or hopeless circumstance

Etymology: A gonner is someone or something beyond saving: a person about to die, or a thing that is plainly finished. The word is built from "gone," the past participle of "go," plus the suffix "-er." The suffix here turns the idea of having departed into a person or thing that has departed. It is informal slang, most common in American English, and it likely arose as a colloquial coinage rather than through any learned route. Its exact first appearance is uncertain.

Synonyms: goner