gamer

adjbrave, willing
adjdebilitated

Synonyms for gamer

adj brave, willing

Antonyms for gamer

Word Origin & History

1620s, "an athlete," agent noun from game (v.). Meaning "one devoted to playing video or computer games" is attested from 1999. Gamester is attested from 1590s but meant "prostitute" (cf. old slang the first game ever played "copulation"), later "a man fit and ready for anything, a player" (mid-17c.).

Example Sentences forgamer

Gamer or better fish than these bream no fisherman could desire.

"My, but you're gamer than ever, Fatty," retorted Barney with admiration.

No boy that ever lived was gamer than the little tan-faced cub.

And never had Duane bestrode a gamer, swifter, stancher beast.

"There ain't a gamer old bird in the valley than Pop," Jeff cried.

He was about thirty-eight and a gamer man never entered the ring.

The gamer a feller is among men the fearder he is among women, it seems like.

A gamer man never pulled his shirt off; but the other is too strong for him.

It is a much bolder-feeding and gamer fish than the common carp, and is just as easy to introduce.

It does not make the small-mouth bass a gamer fish by disparaging the large-mouth.