Good-for-naught

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Good-for-naught

Definition: Good-for-naught

Good-for-naught

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".

Noun

1. An idle worthless person.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Good-for-naught

Synonyms: meritless (adj), no-account (adj), no-count (adj), no-good (adj), sorry (adj), goldbrick (n), good-for-nothing (n), goof-off (n), ne'er-do-well (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Good-for-naught

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-g-h-n-o-o-o-r-t-u"

-4 letters: dogfought, groundhog.

-5 letters: aunthood, unforgot.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Good-for-naught


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 6F 6F 64 2D 66 6F 72 2D 6E 61 75 67 68 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101111 01101111 01100100 00101101 01100110 01101111 01110010 00101101 01101110 01100001 01110101 01100111 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

G o o d - f o r - n a u g h t

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006F 006F 0064 002D 0066 006F 0072 002D 006E 0061 0075 0067 0068 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

418181701572818415806787737486

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