Synonyms for good-for-nothing
- adjective
- noun
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Worthless — useless; worthless
worthless, useless, no-account informal UK US, valueless, sorry, junky, nefarious, meritless, priceless, good-for-naught dated, naughty dated, scummy slang, no-count slang US
Other
do-nothing, unappreciated, blown dated, duffing slang dated UK, cullionly dated, goodless rare
Noun
1. Never-do-well
Other
no-good, unworthy, bum, non-entity, cipher, cypher UK, truant dated, absolute zero slang, no-mark slang, faineant rare, blatherskite rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Useless; worthless.
- n. 1
A person of little worth or usefulness.
Related words
- Other spellings
- good for nothing
Forms
- Plural
- good-for-nothings → never-do-wells, no-goods, unworthies, bums…
Example sentences
- sorry I'm sorry to say, but the service isn't very good.
- useless There's nothing in here but a lot of useless junk.
- junky I hate to break it to you but Yanni is a junky.
- valueless We deemed what belongs to us valueless.
- unappreciated History is replete with the stories of unappreciated genius.
By length
- 3 letters
- bum1
- 5 letters
- sorry2, blown1, junky2
- 6 letters
- cipher2, cypher2, scummy, truant2
- 7 letters
- useless2, naughty2, duffing
- 8 letters
- unworthy3, goodless, faineant
- 9 letters
- worthless2, priceless2, nefarious4, valueless3, meritless3, cullionly
- 12 letters
- blatherskite
- 13 letters
- unappreciated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sorry2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- bon à rien
- Italiano
- buono a nulla