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idler vs good-for-nothing

good-for-nothing vs idler

idler and good-for-nothing both are nouns.

idler is not an adjective while good-for-nothing is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
idler Yes No No No
good-for-nothing Yes Yes No No
As nouns, good-for-nothing is a hyponym of idler; that is, good-for-nothing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than idler:
  • idler: person who does no work
  • good-for-nothing: an idle worthless person
Other hyponyms of idler 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.
idler (noun) good-for-nothing (noun)
person who does no work an idle worthless person
idler (adjective) good-for-nothing (adjective)
without merit; of little or no value or use
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