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English
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- g’d (poetic contraction)
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English gōd (“good, virtuous, desirable, favorable, salutary, pleasant, valid, efficient, suitable, considerable, sufficiently great”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Cognate with Scots guid (“good”), West Frisian goed (“good”), Dutch goed (“good”), Low German god (“good”), German gut (“good”), Danish and Swedish god (“good”), Icelandic góður (“good”), Lithuanian guõdas (“honor”), Old Church Slavonic (godŭ, “pleasing time”), Sanskrit (gádhya, “fitting, suitable”). Related to gather.
Pronunciation
Adjective
good (comparative better, superlative best)
- Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
- good intentions
- 1891: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ch. 6
- When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- It’s a good watch.
- The flashlight batteries are still good.
- Of food, edible; not stale or rotten.
- The bread is still good.
- Of food, having a particularly pleasant taste.
- The food was very good.
- Of food, being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
- Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
- Healthful.
- Carrots are good for you.
- Walking is good for you.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- The music, dancing, and food were very good.
- We had a good time.
- Of people, competent or talented.
- a good swimmer
- Effective.
- a good worker
- Favourable.
- a good omen
- good weather
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- a good job
- (colloquial) With "and", extremely.
- The soup is good and hot.
- (especially when capitalized) Holy.
- Good Friday
- Reasonable in amount.
- all in good time
- Large in amount or size.
- A good part of his day was spent shopping.
- It will be a good while longer until he's done.
- He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.
- a good while longer
- a good amount of seeds
- Entire.
- This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
- The car was a good ten miles away.
Synonyms
- (having positive attributes): not bad, all right, satisfactory, decent
- (healthful): well
Antonyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from goodAdverb
good
- (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
- 1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
- If Silvertip refuses to give you the horse, grab him before he can draw a weapon, and beat him good. You're big enough to do it.
- 2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales, “Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air, WHYY, Pennsylvania
- The one thing that we can't do...is throw out the baby with the bathwater.... We know our process works pretty darn good and, uh, it’s really sparked this amazing phenomenon of this...high-quality website.
- 1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
Noun
good (countable and uncountable; plural goods)
- (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of something qualified by the adjective
- The best is the enemy of the good.
- (countable, usually in plural) An item of merchandise.
Antonyms
Translations
the forces of good
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Limburgish
Etymology
Related to English good. Not related to gód.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ʝoː˦d], [ʝoː˦t]
Adjective
good (comparative: baeter, superlative: bès, 't bès)
Inflection
| Masculine | Feminine | Neutral | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | gooje | gooj | gooj | gooj | good | gooj |
| Genitive | goods | goojer | goojer | goojer | goods | goojer |
| Locative | goojes | gooje | goojes | gooje | goojes | gooje |
| Vocative² | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj |
| Dative¹ | gooje | goojen | goojer | goojen | good | goojen |
| Accusative¹ | gooje | goojen | good | gooj | good | goojen |
¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead. ² Vocative only exists for about ten words.
Low German
Adjective
good
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) Alternative form of goot.
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Adjective
good (comparative beter, superlative beste)
- good (of good quality)
- good (morally right)
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
- and certeinly he was a good felawe
- and certainly he was a good fellow
- and certeinly he was a good felawe
- 14th Century, Chaucer, General Prologue
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Good
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up good in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Good (see also "goods") may refer to:- Good and evil - The distinction between positive and negative entities
- Good (economics) - Objects produced for market
- Form of the Good - Plato's macrocosmic view of goodness in living
- Good (surname)
- Goode (surname)
- Good (magazine)
- Good (film), a 2008 film starring Viggo Mortensen
- Good (Goodshirt album), the 2001 debut album by New Zealand band Goodshirt
- Good (Morphine album), the 1992 debut album by Morphine
- Good, play by Cecil Philip Taylor
- Good Entertainment
- GOOD Music, record label
- Good Technology
See also
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.The nature of goodness has been given many treatments; one is that the good is based on the natural love, bonding, and affection that begins at the earliest stages of personal development; another is that goodness is a product of knowing truth.
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