What are some opposite words for good-for-nothing?
Antonyms for good-for-nothing
ˈgʊd fərˈnʌθ ɪŋ, -ˌnʌθ-good-for-noth·ing
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term good-for-nothing.
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good-for-nothingnoun
Synonyms:
neer-do-wellgood-for-nothingnoun
A person of little worth or usefulness.
Synonyms:
neer-do-well
Princeton's WordNet
goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naughtadjective
an idle worthless person
Antonyms:
valuableSynonyms:
good-for-naught, no-account, goldbrick, ne'er-do-well, goof-offgood-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorryadjective
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"
Antonyms:
valuableSynonyms:
grim, dreary, regretful, gloomy, dingy, drear, bad, good-for-naught, pitiful, rubber, blue, lamentable, deplorable, dark, dismal, drab, meritless, no-account, no-count, distressing, no-good, sorry, sad, disconsolate
How to use good-for-nothing in a sentence?
Law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
Why is it that an ordinary clerk has to pass the examination for clerkship, a police constable has to go through training as a recruit before he could be commissioned and on the other hand vegetable-selling middlemen, good-for-nothing fuedals and imbecile merchants go sit in the Assemblies directly and start legisltating and some even become members of the cabinet
The lessons from today's history books are that Indians are nothing and good for nothing, The truth is that historically we have been a far superior race.
If the servant grows rich and the master poor, they are both good for nothing.
A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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