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Definition of No-account
1. Adjective. Without merit. "The car was a no-good piece of junk"
Similar to: Worthless
Derivative terms: Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing, Sorriness
2. Noun. An idle worthless person.
Generic synonyms: Bum, Do-nothing, Idler, Layabout, Loafer
Derivative terms: Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing
Definition of No-account
1. Adjective. (US colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of No-account
Literary usage of No-account
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"no-account. Worthless. 1853 Yes, Massa, dem no 'count calves done fool me again.
... Tenting on the hisself away on a no-account woman like her. ..."
2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"Of Allen's later life no account is accessible. [Notes and Queries (3rd series),
iii. 251 ; Annual Register (1782), p. 213; European Magazine, ii. 79; Gent. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"But my blood boils with choler, when I think Of all that happ'd the day when
Atreus' Son 810 Made me of no account before the host, Spurn'd me like some ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... by placing funds at the disposal of the priests or some officer of the society,
no account of which will be rendered even to the organization itself. ..."
5. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1875)
"In arranging methodical architectural ; of this kind it must always be carefully
boi mind that small gas-pipes of easily fusible must on no account form ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"Section 754 provides that no account shall be audited by a board of county
commissioners unless it is itemized and verified. Section 711 provides that any ..."
7. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"... when sure the romp will do her best for her own benefit, will be of my mind.
T. no account of any thing from those he approves. ..."
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