Usually means: Utterly useless, lacking any value.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word good for nothing:

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  1. good-for-nothing: Merriam-Webster
  2. good-for-nothing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. good-for-nothing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. good-for-nothing, good-for-nothing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. good-for-nothing: Vocabulary.com
  6. good-for-nothing, good for nothing: Wordnik
  7. good-for-nothing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. good-for-nothing, good for nothing: Wiktionary
  9. good-for-nothing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. good-for-nothing: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Good for nothing, good-for-nothing, good for nothing: Dictionary.com
  12. good-for-nothing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Good-for-Nothing, Good for Nothing (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. good-for-nothing: Rhymezone
  15. good-for-nothing, good for nothing: FreeDictionary.org
  16. good-for-nothing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. good-for-nothing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. good-for-nothing: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  19. good for nothing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Good for nothing)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of good-for-nothing [(idiomatic) Useless; worthless.]

Similar:
no-account, no-good, worthless, no-count, meritless, sorry, goldbrick, goof-off, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, more...

Opposite:
useful, helpful, valuable, beneficial

Types:
worthless, useless, pointless, inutile, unprofitable, bootless, vain, nugatory, more...



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Similar:
no-account, no-good, worthless, no-count, meritless, sorry, goldbrick, goof-off, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, more...

Opposite:
useful, helpful, valuable, beneficial

Types:
worthless, useless, pointless, inutile, unprofitable, bootless, vain, nugatory, more...



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