"никчёмный" meaning in Russian

See никчёмный in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [nʲɪkˈt͡ɕɵmnɨj]
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj) in late 19th or early 20th century, from Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), possibly from Old Polish nikczemny. By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ru|uk|нікче́мний}} Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj), {{der|ru|zle-ort|никче́мный}} Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), {{der|ru|zlw-opl|nikczemny}} Old Polish nikczemny, {{surf|ru|ни|к|что<alt:чему́>|-ный}} By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj) Head templates: {{ru-adj|никчёмный|+|absn=никчёмность}} никчёмный • (nikčómnyj) (comparative (по)никчёмнее or (по)никчёмней, abstract noun никчёмность) Inflection templates: {{ru-decl-adj|никчёмный|a*}} Forms: nikčómnyj [romanization], (по)никчёмнее [comparative], (по)никчёмней [comparative], никчёмность [abstract-noun], no-table-tags [table-tags], никчёмный [masculine, nominative], никчёмное [neuter, nominative], никчёмная [feminine, nominative], никчёмные [nominative, plural], никчёмного [genitive, masculine, neuter], никчёмной [feminine, genitive], никчёмных [genitive, plural], никчёмному [dative, masculine, neuter], никчёмной [dative, feminine], никчёмным [dative, plural], никчёмного [accusative, animate, masculine], никчёмное [accusative, neuter], никчёмную [accusative, feminine], никчёмных [accusative, animate, plural], никчёмный [accusative, inanimate, masculine], никчёмные [accusative, inanimate, plural], никчёмным [instrumental, masculine, neuter], никчёмной [feminine, instrumental], никчёмною [feminine, instrumental], никчёмными [instrumental, plural], никчёмном [masculine, neuter, prepositional], никчёмной [feminine, prepositional], никчёмных [plural, prepositional], никчёмен [masculine, short-form], никчёмно [neuter, short-form], никчёмна [feminine, short-form], никчёмны [plural, short-form]
  1. worthless, useless, good for nothing Synonyms: никуды́шный, бесполе́зный

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "uk",
        "3": "нікче́мний"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "zle-ort",
        "3": "никче́мный"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "zlw-opl",
        "3": "nikczemny"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Polish nikczemny",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "ни",
        "3": "к",
        "4": "что<alt:чему́>",
        "5": "-ный"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj)",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj) in late 19th or early 20th century, from Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), possibly from Old Polish nikczemny. By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nikčómnyj",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(по)никчёмнее",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(по)никчёмней",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмность",
      "tags": [
        "abstract-noun"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ru-decl-adj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a*",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмный",
      "roman": "nikčómnyj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмное",
      "roman": "nikčómnoje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмная",
      "roman": "nikčómnaja",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмные",
      "roman": "nikčómnyje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмного",
      "roman": "nikčómnovo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмному",
      "roman": "nikčómnomu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмным",
      "roman": "nikčómnym",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмного",
      "roman": "nikčómnovo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "animate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмное",
      "roman": "nikčómnoje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмную",
      "roman": "nikčómnuju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "animate",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмный",
      "roman": "nikčómnyj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмные",
      "roman": "nikčómnyje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "inanimate",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмным",
      "roman": "nikčómnym",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмною",
      "roman": "nikčómnoju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмными",
      "roman": "nikčómnymi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмном",
      "roman": "nikčómnom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмен",
      "roman": "nikčómen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмно",
      "roman": "nikčómno",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмна",
      "roman": "nikčómna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмны",
      "roman": "nikčómny",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "short-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "никчёмный",
        "2": "+",
        "absn": "никчёмность"
      },
      "expansion": "никчёмный • (nikčómnyj) (comparative (по)никчёмнее or (по)никчёмней, abstract noun никчёмность)",
      "name": "ru-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "никчёмный",
        "2": "a*"
      },
      "name": "ru-decl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian adjectives with reducible short stem",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian adjectives with short accent pattern a",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Russian terms suffixed with -ный",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "worthless, useless, good for nothing"
      ],
      "id": "en-никчёмный-ru-adj-VVqiGJ-X",
      "links": [
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "good for nothing",
          "good for nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "никуды́шный"
        },
        {
          "word": "бесполе́зный"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[nʲɪkˈt͡ɕɵmnɨj]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "никчёмный"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "uk",
        "3": "нікче́мний"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj)",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "zle-ort",
        "3": "никче́мный"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "zlw-opl",
        "3": "nikczemny"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Polish nikczemny",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ru",
        "2": "ни",
        "3": "к",
        "4": "что<alt:чему́>",
        "5": "-ный"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj)",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ukrainian нікче́мний (nikčémnyj) in late 19th or early 20th century, from Old Ruthenian никче́мный (nikčémnyj), possibly from Old Polish nikczemny. By surface analysis, ни (ni) + к (k) + чему́ (čemú) + -ный (-nyj).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nikčómnyj",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(по)никчёмнее",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "(по)никчёмней",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмность",
      "tags": [
        "abstract-noun"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ru-decl-adj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a*",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмный",
      "roman": "nikčómnyj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмное",
      "roman": "nikčómnoje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмная",
      "roman": "nikčómnaja",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмные",
      "roman": "nikčómnyje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмного",
      "roman": "nikčómnovo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмному",
      "roman": "nikčómnomu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмным",
      "roman": "nikčómnym",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмного",
      "roman": "nikčómnovo",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "animate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмное",
      "roman": "nikčómnoje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмную",
      "roman": "nikčómnuju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "animate",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмный",
      "roman": "nikčómnyj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "inanimate",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмные",
      "roman": "nikčómnyje",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "inanimate",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмным",
      "roman": "nikčómnym",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмною",
      "roman": "nikčómnoju",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмными",
      "roman": "nikčómnymi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмном",
      "roman": "nikčómnom",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмной",
      "roman": "nikčómnoj",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмных",
      "roman": "nikčómnyx",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "prepositional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмен",
      "roman": "nikčómen",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмно",
      "roman": "nikčómno",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмна",
      "roman": "nikčómna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "short-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "никчёмны",
      "roman": "nikčómny",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "short-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "никчёмный",
        "2": "+",
        "absn": "никчёмность"
      },
      "expansion": "никчёмный • (nikčómnyj) (comparative (по)никчёмнее or (по)никчёмней, abstract noun никчёмность)",
      "name": "ru-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "никчёмный",
        "2": "a*"
      },
      "name": "ru-decl-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Russian",
  "lang_code": "ru",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Russian 3-syllable words",
        "Russian adjectives",
        "Russian adjectives with reducible short stem",
        "Russian adjectives with short accent pattern a",
        "Russian adjectives with short forms",
        "Russian compound terms",
        "Russian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Russian hard-stem stem-stressed adjectives",
        "Russian lemmas",
        "Russian terms borrowed from Ukrainian",
        "Russian terms derived from Old Polish",
        "Russian terms derived from Old Ruthenian",
        "Russian terms derived from Ukrainian",
        "Russian terms suffixed with -ный",
        "Russian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Russian terms with redundant head parameter"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "worthless, useless, good for nothing"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "worthless",
          "worthless"
        ],
        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ],
        [
          "good for nothing",
          "good for nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "никуды́шный"
        },
        {
          "word": "бесполе́зный"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[nʲɪkˈt͡ɕɵmnɨj]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "никчёмный"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Russian dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.