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Definition: No-account |
No-accountAdjective1. Without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "no-account" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Synonyms: No-accountSynonyms: good-for-naught (adj), good-for-nothing (adj), meritless (adj), no-count (adj), no-good (adj), sorry (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: No account (finance). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Count of No-Account (1921) Little Miss No-Account (1918) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "No-account" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "No-account" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "no-account"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 没有认为. (various references) | |
German | nutzlos (abortive, bootless, feckless, fustily, futile, idle, naff, of no value, sterile, unavailing, unhelpful, unnecessary, unprofitable, useless, uselessly, vain, valueless), niete (blank, bummer, dead loss, dunce, failure, incompetent, plonker, rivet, slouch, stud, washout), nichtsnutzig (good for nothing, hopeless, no good, useless, worthless), nichtsnutz (good for nothing, no good, useless bungler, wastrel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | jelentéktelen ember (cipher, mere cipher, no-account man, nonentity, piker, pip squeak, pipsqueak, pip-squeak, small beer). (various references) | |
Korean | 간주하ì‹ì‹œìš" (Deem). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | o-accountnay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ageamiu (duffer, greenhorn, lamb, tenderfoot, tyro). (various references) | |
Turkish | geçersiz (defunct, full of holes, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, non-effective, nude, null, off, out of use, paper, unsound, void), değersiz (cheap, despicable, footling, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нікудишній, нікчемний (contemptible, futile, gewgaw, not worth a damn, paltry, piffling, punk, riff raff, scrubby, shabby, trifling, unworthy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-n-o-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: cocoanut. | |
-2 letters: account, coconut, cooncan. | |
-3 letters: cannot, canton, toucan. | |
-4 letters: ancon, canon, canto, coact, cocoa, conto, cotan, count, octan. | |
-5 letters: anon, aunt, auto, cant, coat, coca, coco, conn, coon, coot, nona, noon, nota, noun, onto, taco, toon, tuna, unco, unto. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-n-o-o-t-u" | |
+4 letters: communication, conjunctional, counteraction, nonconceptual. | |
+5 letters: communications, constructional, cotransduction, counteractions, nonaccountable, noncontractual. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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