"no good" meaning in English

See no good in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: en-us-no good.ogg [Mid-Atlantic, US]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} no good (not comparable)
  1. worthless or of no merit Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-no_good-en-adj-C1t9oBRP Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, valueless, bastardly, blown [obsolete], cacky [UK, slang, vulgar], chaffy [obsolete], cocking [vulgar], crapalicious [rare, slang], cruddy [slang], cullionly [obsolete], draffish, draffy [obsolete], dreckish, drecky, duffing [UK, obsolete, slang], floccinaucinihilipilificatious [humorous, rare], for the birds [informal], fucking [vulgar], garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable [obsolete], jabberwocky, junky, mouldy [UK], mucid [figuratively, rare], naughty [obsolete], no-account [UK, US], no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room [US, dated, idiomatic, slang], not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought [obsolete], of no value, pissass [idiomatic, vulgar], punk [US], putid, rubbishly [archaic], rubbishy, sixpenny [dated], scabbed, screwy [archaic], scummy [slang], shand [Scotland], shit, shitey [slang, vulgar], shitstained [vulgar], shitty-ass [US, slang, vulgar], sorry-ass [slang, vulgar], strawlike [figuratively], suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy [US, slang], trinkety, triobolar [obsolete], tripy, two-bit [US, idiomatic, slang], unappreciated, unvaluable [rare], vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless [Caribbean]
  2. useless Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-no_good-en-adj-FqQdnOEU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 55 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 32 57 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 61 10 Synonyms: fruitless, pointless, vain, bootless, barren, futile, sterile, fruitless, gainless, idle, dry, ineffectual, inefficacious, inutile [obsolete], no good, otiose, pointless, profitless, purposeless, tired [African-American-Vernacular-English, derogatory], unavailing, unprofitable, unuseful, unutilizable, useless, vain, void
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, good. Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: nogoodnik Related terms: any good, no-good, no fun, 🆖
    Sense id: en-no_good-en-adj-7TNdnW90
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