She divorced her good-for-nothing husband because she was disgusted with him.
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Good-for-nothing
Synonyms for "good-for-nothing" (194 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
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Noun(16 words)
Adjective(9 words)
Adjective(5 words)
Related words (97)
Adjective(16 words)
Noun(27 words)
nowmunpelfpig dogpile of shitpissantpunkpunyquatramprinky-dinkroly-polyschmoscullionslubberdegullionsparrow-fartstreak of pisstoeragtruanttwerpunderperson
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Adjective(1 words)
Related word relations
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More general
5 entriesderived
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
180 translations across 44 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μαστιγίας noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- bikara adj (useless, worthless)
- faydasız adj (useless, worthless)
- karsız adj (useless, worthless)
- yararsız adj (useless, worthless)
Bambara
1 entries- denbo noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Belarusian
1 entries- нікчэ́мны adj (useless, worthless)
Burmese
1 entries- ချေးထုပ် noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Catalan
4 entries- baliga-balaga adj (useless, worthless)
- inútil adj (useless, worthless)
- inútil noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- negat noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 沒用 /没用 adj (useless, worthless)
- 一無是處 /一无是处 noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- 不是東西 /不是东西 noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- 不稂不莠 noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Czech
2 entries- budižkničemu adj (useless, worthless)
- budižkničemu noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Dutch
1 entries- nietsnut noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Esperanto
2 entries- sentaŭga adj (useless, worthless)
- sentaŭgulo noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Finnish
4 entries- kelvoton adj (useless, worthless)
- hanttapuli noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- hulttio noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- nolla noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
French
4 entries- bon à rien adj (useless, worthless)
- bon à rien noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- nullard noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- vaurien noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Georgian
1 entries- უვარგისი noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
German
4 entries- nutzlos adj (useless, worthless)
- unbrauchbar adj (useless, worthless)
- unnütz adj (useless, worthless)
- untauglich adj (useless, worthless)
Greek
1 entries- χαραμοφάης noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- voryen noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Hebrew
2 entries- חסר תועלת noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- לא יוצלח noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Hindi
1 entries- काम का न काज का दुश्मन अनाज का adj (useless, worthless)
Hungarian
4 entries- hasznavehetetlen adj (useless, worthless)
- haszontalan adj (useless, worthless)
- díszpinty noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- haszontalan noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Icelandic
2 entries- dugleysingi noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- ónytjungur noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Indonesian
2 entries- (orang) brengsek noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- sampah noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Interlingua
1 entries- inutile noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Irish
2 entries- fágtha adj (useless, worthless)
- cúl-le-rath noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Italian
4 entries- buono a nulla adj (useless, worthless)
- fannullone adj (useless, worthless)
- indolente adj (useless, worthless)
- pigro adj (useless, worthless)
Japanese
4 entries- つまらない adj (useless, worthless)
- 碌でなし adj (useless, worthless)
- 下らない noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- 仕様の無い noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Korean
4 entries- 거지같다 adj (useless, worthless)
- 녹녹하다 adj (useless, worthless)
- 보잘것없다 adj (useless, worthless)
- 소용없다 adj (useless, worthless)
Latin
3 entries- nēquam adj (useless, worthless)
- nebulō noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- scurra noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Macedonian
4 entries- бараба noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- беско́рисен noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- битанга noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- па́цер noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Māori
4 entries- hakihakiā adj (useless, worthless)
- koretake adj (useless, worthless)
- kūrapa adj (useless, worthless)
- kūrapa noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- drog noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- døgenikt noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Occitan
4 entries- galapian (Auvergnat) adj (useless, worthless)
- paucval adj (useless, worthless)
- paucvau adj (useless, worthless)
- sacamand adj (useless, worthless)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Daugeniks noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Polish
3 entries- bezużyteczny adj (useless, worthless)
- ladaco noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- nicpoń noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Portuguese
4 entries- imprestável adj (useless, worthless)
- inútil adj (useless, worthless)
- zero à esquerda adj (useless, worthless)
- imprestável noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Russian
4 entries- никуды́шный adj (useless, worthless)
- никчёмный adj (useless, worthless)
- безде́льник noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- бесполе́зный noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Sardinian
4 entries- carreràgiu adj (useless, worthless)
- carreràju adj (useless, worthless)
- inghiriagràstos adj (useless, worthless)
- irvaliendhàdu adj (useless, worthless)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- bìtānga noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- klòšār noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- ljenčarija noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- niškòrīsti noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Spanish
4 entries- bueno para nada adj (useless, worthless)
- inútil adj (useless, worthless)
- tarambana adj (useless, worthless)
- bueno para nada noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Swedish
4 entries- oduglig adj (useless, worthless)
- drönare noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- klantskalle noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- nolla noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Thai
3 entries- คนคุ้มค่าน้อย noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- คนไม่มีประโยชน์ noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- คนไร้ประโยชน์ noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Turkish
1 entries- yaramaz adj (useless, worthless)
Ukrainian
2 entries- нікуди́шній adj (useless, worthless)
- нікче́мний adj (useless, worthless)
Walloon
2 entries- rénnvåt noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
- vårén noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Welsh
1 entries- oferwr noun (person of little worth or usefulness)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Everybody had looked on him as a good-for-nothing.
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Those good-for-nothing layabouts were sacked.
Source: tatoeba (329485)
I'm a good-for-nothing bum.
Source: tatoeba (433739)
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