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bum vs good-for-nothing

good-for-nothing vs bum

bum and good-for-nothing both are nouns.

bum and good-for-nothing both are adjectives.

bum is a verb but good-for-nothing is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bum Yes Yes Yes No
good-for-nothing Yes Yes No No
As nouns, good-for-nothing is a hyponym of bum; that is, good-for-nothing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:
  • bum: person who does no work
  • good-for-nothing: an idle worthless person
Other hyponyms of bum include clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope, dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer, daydreamer, woolgatherer, goldbrick, good-for-naught, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account, lazybones, lie-abed, slugabed, loon, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.
bum (noun) good-for-nothing (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on an idle worthless person
a vagrant
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
person who does no work
bum (adjective) good-for-nothing (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy without merit; of little or no value or use
bum (verb) good-for-nothing (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite
be lazy or idle
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