Latin

Adjective

nēquam ‎(invariable)

1. worthless, good-for-nothing
2. wretched, vile

• comparative: nēquior, superlative: nēquissimus

Derived terms

• nēquitia/ nēquitiēs

References

• nequam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nequam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nequam”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good, useful slave: frugi (opp. nequam) servus