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Definition of Good-for-naught
1. Adjective. Without merit. "The car was a no-good piece of junk"
Similar to: Worthless
Derivative terms: Good-for-nothing, Sorriness
2. Noun. An idle worthless person.
Generic synonyms: Bum, Do-nothing, Idler, Layabout, Loafer
Derivative terms: Good-for-nothing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good-for-naught
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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