GOOD FOR NOTHING

Definition: GOOD FOR NOTHING

GOOD FOR NOTHING

1. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person. My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing. --Ld. Lytton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Multilingual Slang

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Impotence

Null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual; (failing); inadequate; inefficacious; (useless).

Inutility

Vain, empty, inane; gainless, profitless, fruitless; unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive; hors de combat; effete, past work; (impaired); obsolete; (old); fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for; unnecessary, unneeded.

Crosswords: GOOD FOR NOTHING

You triflin', good for nothing type of brother ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

The Good for Nothing (1917)

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Books

• Good for Nothing Men (reference)

• She Was Good for Nothing (reference)

  (more book examples)

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It is good for nothing except to produce people with scraggy bodies and empty heads

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "GOOD FOR NOTHING": be good for nothing. Additional references.

Albanian

përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, slothful, sluggard, snail, sundowner, swabber, truant, twiddler), i padobishëm (bootless, de trop, fruitless, ineffective, ineffectual, inutile, kill time, marginal, naught, needless, ne'er do well, no earthly use, nugatory, otiose, riffraff, useless), i kotë (feckless, footling, futile, needless, otiose, pointless, unavailing, useless, vain, wanton, worthless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاشل (failing, fruitless, futile, unstuck, unsuccessful, washed up), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

негодник (dog, knave, no good, rotter, scapegrace, scaramouch, sorry fellow, villain, wretch), негоден за нищо (useless), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references)

Czech

zbyteèný (false, futile, gratuitous, needless, senseless, unnecessary, useless, wasted, wasteful), povaleè (bum, bummer, layabout, loafer, lounger, slob, vagabond), nepotřebný (needless, no earthly use, redundant, unnecessary, unwanted, useless), nanicovatý (muzzy), darmošlap (drifter, layabout), budižknièemu. (various references)

Finnish

hänestä ei ole mihinkään (he's good for nothing). (various references)

French

qui vaut rien, propre � rien (no good). (various references)

German

nichtsnutzig (hopeless, no good, no-account, useless, worthless). (various references)

Greek 

χαραμοφάησ, ακαμάτησ (drone, lazybones, loafer), αχαΰρευτοσ (scapegrace). (various references)

Hebrew 

למך (lemech, lummox), לא יצלח (dud, duffer, muff, unfit, wastrel), שלומיאל (muff, worthless person), ח�"ל אישים (worthless person), בטלן (drifter, drone, idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer). (various references)

Hungarian

semmit sem ér (to be nothing worth, to be worth nothing), semmirevaló (rotter, scapegrace, waster, wastrel), semmire sem jó (ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel), haszontalan (barren, feckless, fiddling, frivolous, futile, helpless, idle, ineffectual, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, null, otiose, punk, reprobate, unavailable, unavailing, unhelpful). (various references)

Italian

inutile (bootless, idle, in vain, needless, objectless, pointless, unavailing, unfit, unnecessary, unsuitable, unusable, useless, vain), di nessun valore (rubbishing, valueless, worthless), buon a nulla. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

碌碌 (hardly), 出来損ない (badly done, failure). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

できそ�"ない (badly done, dead loss, failure, good-for-nothing, washout), ろくろく (hardly). (various references)

Manx

Chan 'eeagh eh veg (it's good for nothing). (various references)

Pig Latin

oodgay orfay othingnay.(various references)

Romanian

golan (cad, hooligan, ragamuffin, ragged, rascal, ruffian, tramp, urchin, vagabond, wretch), teleleu, tândalã, secãturã (cad, ne'er do well, reprobate, rotter, scapegrace, trifles), puşlama (scapegrace), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, silly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), netrebnic (a dirty dog, knave, knavish, picaroon, rascal, reprobate, scab, sneak, useless, vile, villain, worthless, wretch), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, piffling, simple, threepenny, trashy, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless), buruianã (Heath, Heather, herb, plant, rogue, vegetable, weed), bun de nimic. (various references)

Russian 

ни на что не годный, бесполезный (abortive, bootless, fatuous, feckless, fiddling, fruitless, futile, idle, inutile, naught, needless, nugatory, of no avail, otiose, unavailing, unhelpful, unprofitable, useless, valueless, virtueless), бездельник (bum, chair warmer, dangler, do nothing, do-naught, do-nothing, doodle, footer, fribble, idler, layabout, loafer, loon, lounger, ne'er do well, ne'erdoweel, rapscallion, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, scapegrace, skulker, sluggard, trifler, twiddler, vagabond). (various references)

Scottish

ealbhar (a good for nothing fellow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nikogović (nobody, twerp, whipster), nevaljalac (rascal, rogue), bezvredan (brummagem, inconsiderable, naught, rubbishy, useless, valueless, worthless). (various references)

Spanish

trasto (doohickey, household utensil, odd type, old crock, piece of furniture, piece of junk, utensil), inútil (empty, helpless, naught, needless, no go, of no avail, of no use, pointless, profitless, purposeless, unavailing, unfit, unprofitable, unserviceable, unsuccessful, unsuitable, useless, vain, waste, wasted), follón (shambles, stink, sucker). (various references)

Swedish

odugling (dud, duffer, lame duck, non-starter), oduglig (disabled, dud, inapt, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, unfit, unqualified, unsuitable, useless). (various references)

Turkish

yaramaz (elfin, elvish, impish, little perisher, mischievous, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), işe yaramaz (dud, fiddling, idle, it's no use, no good, noneffective, non-effective, null, of no avail, of no use, offcast, otiose, out, refuse, reject, unfit, unserviceable, useless, weedy), haylaz (abandoned, idle, lazy, naughty, rapscallion, scamp, shiftless), beş para etmez (a dime a dozen, bum, not worth a button, not worth a cent, not worth a damn, not worth a doit, not worth a farthing, not worth a fig, not worth a penny, not worth a rap, not worth a rush, tinpot, trashy, worthless). (various references)

Turkmen 

kelesaс (shiftless). (various references)

Ukrainian

гультяй (dangler, ne'er do well, rambler, skulk, wassailer, wretch), нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, dead beat, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, skulk, spalpeen, waster), непридатний (chaffy, ineligible, insufficient, non-effective, of no avail, outcast, refuse, trumpery, unfit, unsuitable, unusable, useless, without avail), безкорисний (begging, profitless). (various references)

luteas, luteo, nequam. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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