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No-account

Definition: No-account

No-account

Adjective

1. 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-account

Synonyms: 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).

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Modern Usage: No-account

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Count of No-Account (1921)

Little Miss No-Account (1918)

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

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Usage Frequency: No-account

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: No-account

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 

  

간주하십시ìš" (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.

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Anagrams: No-account

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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