29 Moby Thesaurus words for "out of the running": base, deficient, disappointing, falling short, hors de combat, imperfect, inadequate, incompetent, insufficient, little, maladroit, mean, mediocre, not comparable, not in it, obsolete, off the field, out of commission, out of gear, out of it, petty, second best, shabby, small, tantalizing, teasing, trivial, unsatisfactory, unskillful