Definition of Good-for-naught

1. Noun. An idle worthless person.


2. Adjective. Without merit. "The car was a no-good piece of junk"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good-for-naught

goober-grabbler
goober bean
goober pea
goober peas
goobers
gooch
good
good(p)
good-by
good-bye
good-byes
good-den
good-faith
good-fellowship
good-for-naught (current term)
good-for-nothing
good-for-nothings
good-hearted
good-heartedly
good-heartedness
good-humored
good-humoredly
good-humoredness
good-humoured
good-king-henry
good-looking
good-lookingness
good-natured
good-naturedly

Literary usage of Good-for-naught

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Municipal Affairs by Reform Club (New York, N.Y.) (1899)
"... good for naught except to furnish a use for dredgers. I cannot, for my time is limited, point out all the barbarities that are planned. ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... good- for-naught" (when Ruth was excited she often used the graphic diction of the country-side) " who takes no trouble for himself, but just lives to ..."

3. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises , and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1840)
"... and I believe will be more and more cast out as the unsavoury salt, which is good for naught in religion, and is indeed trodden under the feet of men ..."

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