Dictionary

no-account en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (UK, US, colloquial) Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.
   • "There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off." 1898, Joel Chandler Harris, Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War, page 48:
   • "Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news," he says. What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on. 2001, Charles De Lint, The Onion Girl, page 274:
   • You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago. 2004, John Horne Burns, Paul Fussell, The Gallery, page 124:

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Synonyms

unvaluable · shitstained · shand · worthless · two-bit · cruddy · vain · screwy · shitty-ass · junky · not worth a dime · naughty · jabberwocky · valueless · trinkety · not worth hell room · tripy · drecky · shitey · valueless · mouldy · chaffy · invaluable · unappreciated · two-bit · draffish · not worth a brass farthing · fucking · not worth a cress · rubbishy · draffy · tenth-rate · goodless · dreckish · pissass · no-account · cocking · good-for-naught · mucid · scummy · cullionly · garbagey · not worth a cent · shit · nought · punk · not worth a curse · bastardly · not worth a damn · not worth a penny · not worth a farthing · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · rubbishly · cacky · not worth a whistle · crapalicious · not worth salt · of no value · nonvaluable · useless · sorry-ass · for the birds · strawlike · wutless · scabbed · duffing · good-for-nothing · blown · triobolar · putid · no good / no-good · suckworthy · not worth a plug nickel · not worth a nickel · worth nothing · not worth a Continental · sixpenny · toshy · ineffectual