ne'er-do-well

Questions about ne'er-do-well

What is another word for ne'er-do-well?

It depends which ne'er-do-well you mean. In the sense “an idle worthless person”, the synonyms are goldbrick, goof-off, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for-naught. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of ne'er-do-well?

WordNet records no antonym for ne'er-do-well. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for ne'er-do-well come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of ne'er-do-well

• Full entry for ne'er-do-wellAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for ne'er-do-wellWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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