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loafer vs good-for-naught

good-for-naught vs loafer

loafer and good-for-naught both are nouns.

loafer is not an adjective while good-for-naught is an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
loafer Yes No No No
good-for-naught Yes Yes No No
As nouns, good-for-naught is a hyponym of loafer; that is, good-for-naught is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than loafer:
  • loafer: person who does no work
  • good-for-naught: an idle worthless person
Other hyponyms of loafer 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.
loafer (noun) good-for-naught (noun)
person who does no work an idle worthless person
loafer (adjective) good-for-naught (adjective)
without merit; of little or no value or use
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