no-account

Questions about no-account

What does no-account mean?

no-account means "an idle worthless person". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in no-account?

no-account has 3 syllables: no--ac-count. The stress falls on "no-".

What is another word for no-account?

Close synonyms include goldbrick, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nothing, good-for-naught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is no-account a common word?

no-account is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.