no-good
no-good adjective: having no value, use or merit.
Adjective
no-good (not comparable)
- Having no value, use or merit.
- Synonyms:
- good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy
Noun
no-good (plural no-goods)
- A worthless or useless person.
- The jail had not housed a white criminal in over four years, and there is seldom a prisoner of any kind, the Sheriff being a lazy no-good, prone to take his ease with a bottle of liquor, and let trouble-makers and thieves, even the most dangerous type of cutthroats, run free and wild.1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1
- Synonyms:
- good-for-nothing, know-nothing, no-mark, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion
Synonyms of no-good
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- for the birds
- fucking
- garbagey
- goodless
- ineffectual
- jabberwocky
- junky
- mouldy
- no-account
- no good / no-good
- nonvaluable
- not worth a damn
- not worth a dime
- not worth a plug nickel
- not worth a brass farthing
- not worth a cent
- not worth a cress
- not worth a curse
- not worth a Continental
- not worth a farthing
- not worth a nickel
- not worth a penny
- not worth salt
- not worth a whistle
- of no value
- pissass
- punk
- putid
- rubbishy
- scabbed
Forms of no-good
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | no good |
| Noun | |
| plural | no-goods |
Phrases with no-good
Questions about no-good
- What does no-good mean?
- No-good means having no value, use or merit.
- What part of speech is no-good?
- No-good can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near no-good in the dictionary
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