no good
no good adjective: worthless or of no merit.
Adjective
no good (not comparable)
- worthless or of no merit
- That boy's no good: it's no use our trying to fix it!
- Synonyms:
- good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy
- useless
- What good is it asking you? It's no good talking to you: you never listen.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, good.
- You have no good excuse to do that!
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
Words formed from no good
Questions about no good
- What does no good mean?
- No good means worthless or of no merit.
- What part of speech is no good?
- No good is an adjective.
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