Thesaurus:worthless person
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: a person of no worth or value; a contemptibly insignificant person
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- absolute zero (slang)
- asswipe (North America, vulgar)
- badling (rare)
- bugger (Commonwealth, slang)
- carrion (figurative, obsolete)
- cipher
- cockstain (vulgar, slang)
- crumb (slang)
- custron (obsolete)
- dandiprat (dated)
- doink (slang)
- fellow (obsolete)
- fritlag (Manx)
- geek
- good-for-naught
- good-for-nothing
- hoon
- lidderon (Britain, dialectal, archaic, rare)
- losel (archaic)
- loser
- louse
- maggot
- nonce
- nowmun (Britain, dialectal)
- ne'er-do-well
- no-good
- no-mark (Britain, slang)
- nonentity [⇒ thesaurus]
- pelf (Yorkshire)
- pig dog
- pile of shit
- pissant
- punk
- puny (archaic)
- quat (obsolete)
- ramp (American dialect)
- rinky-dink (chiefly US, informal)
- roly-poly (obsolete)
- scullion (obsolete)
- slubberdegullion
- sparrow-fart (slang)
- streak of piss (vulgar, slang)
- toerag
- truant (obsolete)
- twerp
- wankstain (slang, Britain)
- waste of space
- underperson
- unworthy
Antonyms
[edit]- important person [⇒ thesaurus]
- big cheese
- notable [⇒ thesaurus]
- swell
- worthy
Hypernyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “876. commonalty” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “worthless person” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.