no good

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no good

adjective

not comparable worthless or of no merit That boy's no good: it's no use our trying to fix it!
Similar: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish
not comparable useless What good is it asking you? It's no good talking to you: you never listen.
Similar: fruitless, pointless, vain, bootless, barren, futile, sterile, gainless, idle, dry, ineffectual, inefficacious
not comparable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, good. You have no good excuse to do that!

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@misc{no_good_2026,
  title = {no good},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/no%20good},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}