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good-for-nothing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun good-for-nothing has 1 sense
- good-for-nothing(n = noun.person) goldbrick, good-for-naught, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account - an idle worthless person; Array is a kind of bum, do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer
Derived form adjective good-for-nothing1
Adjective good-for-nothing has 1 sense
- good-for-nothing(s = adj.all) good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry - without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" Derived form noun good-for-nothing1
THESAURUS
good-for-nothing
Bowery bum, NG, bad lot, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blighter, bone-lazy, budmash, bum, bummer, cadging, caitiff, cheap, derelict, devil, dilatory, do-nothing, doless, drifter, dronish, drony, drunkard, easy, ergophobic, faineant, good-for-naught, hobo, human wreck, indolent, junk, junky, laggard, lax, lazy, lazzarone, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-account, no-good, nonaggressive, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nothing, nugacious, nugatory, parasitic, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, procrastinative, profligate, remiss, rounder, sad case, sad sack, scapegrace, scrounging, shabby, shiftless, shoddy, skid-row bum, slack, slothful, slow, sponging, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tramp, trashy, trivial, truant, unenterprising, unworthy, vag, vagabond, vagrant, valueless, vaurien, waster, wastrel, work-shy, worthless, worthless fellow, wretch
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