Definitions

no-good

[noh-good, noh-good] / ˈnoʊˈgʊd, ˈnoʊˌgʊd /

ADJECTIVE

worthless

Synonyms

WEAK

abandoned abject barren base bogus cheap contemptible counterproductive despicable drossy empty futile good-for-nothing ignoble inconsequential ineffective ineffectual inferior insignificant inutile meaningless mediocre miserable no-account nothing nugatory paltry pointless poor profitless sterile trashy trifling trivial unavailing unessential unimportant unproductive unprofitable unusable useless valueless waste wretched

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There is no good reason to withhold the data.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

Right now, there is no good solution for the industry or for travelers looking for a flight deal.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

Questions were asked in the news conference and in the roughly 24 hours after that it did no good to ask: “Why do you think this keeps happening to you?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

All that said, no good book belongs to just one genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The central task of such an epistemology is not to explain why we have been successful in our pursuit of scientific knowledge; there is no good answer to that question.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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