Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

no-account

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.18 in modern English

Syllables: no-ac-count
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.

British usage; American usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

""There are ten or fifteen hound-dogs around the yard, and they are actually too no-account to scratch the fleas off.""
""Well, I'm sorry to have had to be the one to give you the bad news," he says. What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on."
"You see, corporal, the human race is getting worse all the time. Each year we know less than we did in the preceding. We're more no-account now than we were five hundred years ago."

Usage

British usage
American usage
Colloquial

Inflected Forms

more no-account (comparative) most no-account (superlative) no-count (alternative)

Synonyms

two-bit useless valueless bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish

Questions

What does no-account mean?: Of no value or merit; good-for-nothing; of no account.

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