Usually means: Situation where success is impossible.
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  1. no-win: Merriam-Webster
  2. no-win: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. no-win: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. no-win, no-win: Collins English Dictionary
  5. no-win: Vocabulary.com
  6. No-win, no-win: Wordnik
  7. no-win: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. no-win: Wiktionary
  9. no-win: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. no-win: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. no-win: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. no-win: Dictionary.com
  13. no-win: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. no-win: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. no-win: Rhymezone
  16. no-win: FreeDictionary.org
  17. no-win: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. no-win: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  certain to end in failure and disappointment ("A no-win situation")

Similar:
no-lose, unwinnable, unlikely, self-defeating, nonwinning, unsuccessful, nonsuccessful, futile, unsucceedable, failed, more...

Opposite:
win-win, mutually beneficial, advantageous

Types:
stalemate, draw, tie, more...

Phrases:
no-win situation, more...
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Similar:
no-lose, unwinnable, unlikely, self-defeating, nonwinning, unsuccessful, nonsuccessful, futile, unsucceedable, failed, more...

Opposite:
win-win, mutually beneficial, advantageous

Types:
stalemate, draw, tie, more...

Phrases:
no-win situation, more...



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