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good
/ɡʊd/
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What does good mean?
adjective
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Competent or talented.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
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adjective
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- Effective.
- Having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
- Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
- True, valid, of explanatory strength.
- Right, proper, as it should be.
- Healthful.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- Favorable.
- Unblemished; honourable.
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
- Very, extremely. See good and.
- Ready.
- Holy (especially when capitalized) .
- Reasonable in amount.
- Large in amount or size.
- Full; entire; at least as much as.
- Special, best, favorite.
- (archaic) Of high rank or birth.
- (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
- (offensive) Of a black person, dead or killed.
interjection
- That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
adverb
- (informal) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
noun
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
verb
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To benefit; gain.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
- Plato's metaprinciple of proper systemic function between principles; the fundamental Platonic form which enables knowledge and metacognition, from which other concepts such as truth, justice and virtue derive meaning.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
The tenure by which the judges are to hold their places, is, as it unquestionably ought to be, that of good behavior.
I had received many good lessons from them, and was still receiving them, and the thought of leaving them was painful indeed.
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To be sure they always wasted a good deal of time getting in each other’s way and giggling at each other’s mistakes.
Of the fabricated tastes of good fashionable society she knew but little, and of the formulated self-indulgence of bad, nothing at all.
This was a good opportunity to see the country, too, and the more I saw of it, the better I liked it.