Usually means: Not beneficial, harmful, or useful.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word no good:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. no-good, no good: Merriam-Webster
  2. no-good: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. no-good: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. no-good, no-good: Collins English Dictionary
  5. no-good: Vocabulary.com
  6. no-good: Wordnik
  7. no-good, no good: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. no-good, no good: Wiktionary
  9. no-good: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. no-good: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. no-good: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. no-good, no good: Dictionary.com
  13. no-good (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. No Good (Ally Brooke song), No Good (Start the Dance), No Good (album), No Good (group): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. no-good, no good: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. no-good: FreeDictionary.org
  17. no-good: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. no-good: Rhymezone

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. no-good: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. no good: Idioms
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. no-good, no good: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (no good)

▸ adjective:  worthless or of no merit
▸ adjective:  useless

Similar:
worthless, no-count, no-account, meritless, good-for-nothing, bad, sorry, rubber, good-for-naught, no-good, more...

Opposite:
excellent, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous, superb

Types:
lousy, terrible, bad, horrible, awful, grim, dreadful, more...

Phrases:
no news is good news, up to no good, be no good, been no good, being no good, more...


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Similar:
worthless, no-count, no-account, meritless, good-for-nothing, bad, sorry, rubber, good-for-naught, no-good, more...

Opposite:
excellent, wonderful, fantastic, marvelous, superb

Types:
lousy, terrible, bad, horrible, awful, grim, dreadful, more...

Phrases:
no news is good news, up to no good, be no good, been no good, being no good, is no good, was no good, were no good, be up to no good, come to no good, for no good reason, No good deed goes unpunished, more...



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