Definitions

no-account

[noh-uh-kount] / ˈnoʊ əˌkaʊnt /

ADJECTIVE

worthless

Synonyms

STRONG

barren base empty good-for-nothing inferior nothing poor trifling waste

WEAK

abandoned abject bogus cheap contemptible counterproductive despicable drossy futile ignoble inconsequential ineffective ineffectual insignificant inutile meaningless mediocre miserable no-good nugatory paltry pointless profitless sterile trashy trivial unavailing unessential unimportant unproductive unprofitable unusable useless valueless wretched

Antonyms

STRONG

fertile filled full productive sufficient superior useful

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no-account

She’d written hundreds of scripts by the time she published this still-useful how-to book, allegedly with her no-account husband.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

Jeff Bridges was probably the only possible casting as the no-account “Rooster” Cogburn, with Hailee Steinfeld as his employer, the 14-year-old Mattie Ross.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2018

By early 2014, IS - which he and other fighters once mocked as a no-account outfit with paltry numbers - had driven rebel factions out of Raqqa.

From BBC ● May 3, 2018

If you believe the lore, Nashville hot chicken was basically a crime of passion, created as a blistering rebuke to a no-account Romeo who couldn’t keep his hands off other women.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2015

Why does he put up with this no-account that’s runnin’ the Army of the Potomac?

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

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