do-nothing vs good-for-naught

good-for-naught vs do-nothing

do-nothing and good-for-naught both are nouns.

do-nothing and good-for-naught both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
do-nothing	Yes	Yes	No	No
good-for-naught	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, good-for-naught is a hyponym of do-nothing; that is, good-for-naught is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than do-nothing:

do-nothing: person who does no work
good-for-naught: an idle worthless person

Other hyponyms of do-nothing include clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope, dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer, daydreamer, woolgatherer, goldbrick, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account, lazybones, lie-abed, slugabed, loon, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.

do-nothing (noun)	good-for-naught (noun)
person who does no work	an idle worthless person

do-nothing (adjective)	good-for-naught (adjective)
characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility	without merit; of little or no value or use

Difference between do-nothing and good-for-naught

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