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Synonyms for no-good

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Good-for-nothing — worthless or of no merit

good-for-nothing, worthless, bad, junky, sorry, valueless, no-account informal UK US, priceless, meritless, scabbed, shand UK, jabberwocky, fucking vulgar, good-for-naught dated, no-count slang US, blown dated, invaluable dated, cocking vulgar, duffing slang dated UK, floccinaucinihilipilificatious rare, crapalicious slang rare, mucid dated rare

2. Pointless — useless

pointless, vain, fruitless

Other

rubber

Noun

know-nothing, unworthy, naught US, nought UK, truant dated, no-mark slang, nogoodnik slang US

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    worthless or of no merit

    That boy's no good: it's no use our trying to fix it!

  2. adj. 2

    useless

    What good is it asking you? It's no good talking to you: you never listen.

  3. n. 1

    A worthless or useless person.

Related words

Other spellings
no good

Forms

Plural
no-goods → know-nothings, unworthies, naughts, truants…

Example sentences

  • sorry I'm sorry to say, but the service isn't very good.
  • junky I hate to break it to you but Yanni is a junky.
  • valueless We deemed what belongs to us valueless.
  • rubber He put a rubber band around the bundle of letters.

By length

3 letters
bad1
4 letters
vain1
5 letters
sorry2, blown1, shand1, junky2, mucid
6 letters
rubber2, naught1, nought, truant2
7 letters
fucking2, cocking2, scabbed, duffing
8 letters
unworthy3
9 letters
pointless2, worthless2, priceless2, fruitless2, valueless3, meritless3, nogoodnik
10 letters
invaluable4
11 letters
jabberwocky
12 letters
crapalicious

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sorry2 = 2 syllables).