Dictionary Definition
good adj
1 having desirable or positive qualities
especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from
the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was
very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this
stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good
joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress
for the office" [ant: bad]
2 having the normally expected amount; "gives
full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here" [syn:
full]
3 morally admirable [ant: evil]
4 deserving of esteem and respect; "all
respectable companies give guarantees"; "ruined the family's good
name" [syn: estimable,
honorable, respectable]
5 promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms
limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial
effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her"
[syn: beneficial]
6 superior to the average; "in fine spirits"; "a
fine student"; "made good grades"; "morale was good"; "had good
weather for the parade" [syn: fine]
7 agreeable or pleasing; "we all had a good
time"; "good manners"
8 of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person";
"a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the
nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and
virtuous"- Frederick Douglass [syn: just, upright, virtuous]
9 having or showing knowledge and skill and
aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert
job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient
engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the
effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful]
10 thorough; "had a good workout"; "gave the
house a good cleaning"
11 with or in a close or intimate relationship;
"a good friend"; "my sisters and brothers are near and dear" [syn:
dear, near]
12 having or showing or arising from a desire to
promote the welfare or happiness of others; "his benevolent smile";
"a benevolent nature" [syn: benevolent] [ant: malevolent]
14 most suitable or right for a particular
purpose; "a good time to plant tomatoes"; "the right time to act";
"the time is ripe for great sociological changes" [syn: right, ripe]
15 resulting favorably; "its a good thing that I
wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no
one saw you"; "all's well that ends well" [syn: well(p)]
16 exerting force or influence; "the law is
effective immediately"; "a warranty good for two years"; "the law
is already in effect (or in force)" [syn: effective, in
effect(p), in
force(p)]
17 feeling healthy and free of aches and pains;
"I feel good" [syn: good(p)]
18 capable of pleasing; "good looks"
19 appealing to the mind; "good music"; "a
serious book" [syn: serious]
20 in excellent physical condition; "good teeth";
"I still have one good leg"; "a sound mind in a sound body" [syn:
sound]
21 tending to promote physical well-being;
beneficial to health; "beneficial effects of a balanced diet"; "a
good night's sleep"; "the salutary influence of pure air" [syn:
beneficial, salutary]
22 not forged; "a good dollar bill"
24 generally admired; "good taste"
Noun
1 benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good
of worrying?"
2 moral excellence or admirableness; "there is
much good to be found in people" [syn: goodness] [ant: evil, evil]
3 that which is good or valuable or useful;
"weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all
are happiness and self-realization" [syn: goodness] [ant: bad, bad] adv
1 (often used as a combining form) in a good or
proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a
nonstandard dialectal variant for `well'); "the children behaved
well"; "a task well done"; "the party went well"; "he slept well";
"a well-argued thesis"; "a well-planned party"; "the baby can walk
pretty good" [syn: well]
[ant: ill]
2 in a complete and thorough manner (`good' is
sometimes used informally for `thoroughly'); "he was soundly
defeated"; "we beat him good" [syn: thoroughly, soundly] [also: better, best]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
see goodsPronunciation
- , /ɡʊd/, /gUd/
-
- Rhymes with: -ʊd
Etymology 1
< god < < .Adjective
- Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
- good intentions
- Oscar Wilde
- When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
- Useful for a particular purpose (it’s a good watch).
- Of food, edible; not
stale or rotten.
- still good
- Of food, having a particularly pleasant taste.
- Of food, healthful; full of vitamins and minerals.
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- a good time
- Of people, competent or talented.
- a good swimmer
- Effective.
- a good worker
- Favourable.
- a good omen
- good weather
- a good omen
- Beneficial;
worthwhile.
- a good job
- With "and", extremely. (The soup is good and hot.)
- Goody-goody; lacking in spirit or personality.
- In the context of "especially when capitalized": Holy.
- Reasonable in amount.
- a good while longer
- a good amount of seeds
- all in good time
- a good amount of seeds
- 1883: Robert
Louis Stevenson, Treasure
Island
- The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
- a good while longer
- 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.
- It will be a good while longer until he's done.
- 2005 Malcolm Gladwell, Blink'', Little,
ISBN 0316172324, page 125,
- For the better part of one hundred years, this was the home of Cook County Hospital.
- A good part of his day was spent shopping.
Antonyms
- italbrac acting in the interest of good: bad, evil
- poor
Derived terms
- for good
- good and
- good as gold
- goodbye
- good-for-nothing
- good grief
- goodly
- goodness
- good night
- good to go
Translations
acting in the interest of good; ethical (good
intentions)
- Croatian: dobar
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god, godt
- Filipino: mabuti
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut
- Greek: καλός, αγαθός
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: अच्छा, अच्छी, अच्छे, भला, भली, भले
- Hungarian: jó
- Icelandic: góður, góð, gott
- Japanese: (, yoi), (, zen'i no)
- Latin: bonus, bona, bonum
- Latvian: labs
- Lithuanian: geras
- Marathi: चांगला, चांगली, चांगले, भला, भली, भले
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший, добрый
- Scots: guid
- Serbian: dobar , dobra , dobrotstvo , blagodaran , blagodarna , blagodarnost
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Spanish: bueno, buena
- Swedish: god, gott
- Tagalog: mabuti
- Thai: (jet taa naa dee)
- Vietnamese: tốt, hay, tuyệt
useful for a particular purpose (it’s a good
watch)
- Croatian: dobar
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god, godt
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut
- Greek: καλός
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: उत्तम, अच्छा, अच्छी, अच्छे
- Japanese: (, yoi), (ii)
- Latvian: labs
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший
- Scots: guid
- Serbian: godan, dobar, valjan
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Swedish: bra
- Thai: (doo dee) (informal), (suay ngaam) (formal)
of food, edible; not stale or rotten
of food, having a particularly pleasant taste
- Croatian: ukusan
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god, godt
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut
- Hebrew: , , ,
- Latvian: gards
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший
- Serbian: ukusno, dobro
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Swedish: god, gott
of food, healthful; full of vitamins and
minerals
pleasant; enjoyable
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god, fin
- Finnish: mukava, hauska, kiva
- German: gut, schön, angenehm
- Greek: καλός
- Hebrew: , , ,
- Hindi: उत्तम, अच्छा, अच्छी, अच्छे
- Japanese: (, yoi), (ii)
- Latvian: labs, patīkams
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший
- Scots: guid
- Serbian: godno, ugodno, čedno, dobro
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Swedish: bra
of people, competent or talented
- Croatian: dobar
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god, dygtig
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: उत्तम, अच्छा, अच्छी, अच्छे
- Japanese: (, yoi), (ii)
- Latvian: labs
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший
- Scots: guid
- Serbian: spretan , spretna , blagotvorna , blagotvoran , sposoban , sposobna
- Swedish: bra
effective
- Croatian: dobar
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut, effektiv
- Hebrew: ,
- Latvian: labs, efektīvs
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший
- Serbian: dobro
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Swedish: bra
favourable
- Croatian: dobar
- Czech: dobrý
- Danish: god
- Finnish: hyvä
- German: gut
- Hebrew: ,
- Hindi: उत्तम, अच्छा, अच्छी, अच्छे
- Japanese: (, yoi), (ii)
- Latvian: labs, labvēlīgs
- Polish: dobry, dobra, dobre, dobre
- Russian: хороший (xoróšij), добрый (dóbryj) of an omen
- Scots: guid
- Serbian: pouzdano
- Slovene: dober, dobra, dobro
- Swedish: bra, god, gott
beneficial; worthwhile
- ttbc Afrikaans: goed
- ttbc Albanian: mirë
- ttbc Arabic: (jéyyid), طَيّب , (ħásan)
- ttbc Armenian: լավ (lav)
- ttbc Azeri: yaxşı
- ttbc Bengali: ভাল (valo)
- ttbc Bulgarian: добър, добра, добро (dobər, dobra, dobro) m/f/n; приятен, приятна, приятно (prijaten, prijatna, prijatno) m/f/n
- ttbc Catalan: bo , bona ^
- ttbc Cebuano: maayo
- ttbc Chinese: 好 (hǎo)
- ttbc Dutch: goed, goede
- ttbc Esperanto: bona
- ttbc Fijian: vinaka
- ttbc French: bon , bonne
- Guaraní: porã
- ttbc Hittite: aššu
- ttbc Ido: benigna (1), bona
- ttbc Indonesian: baik, bagus
- ttbc Interlingua: bon
- ttbc Inuktitut: pitsiartok
- ttbc Italian: buono , buona
- ttbc Korean: 좋은 (jo-eun)
- ttbc Kurdish: baş, qenc, çê, çak, rind
- ttbc Lakota: washte
- ttbc Lithuanian: geras
- ttbc Norwegian: god
- ttbc Novial: bon, boni
- ttbc Ojibwe: mino-
- ttbc Persian: (xub)
- ttbc Portuguese: bom , boa
- ttbc Quechua: allin
- ttbc Romanian: bun , bună
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: math
- ttbc Serbian: добро (dobro)
- ttbc Sicilian: bonu , bona
- ttbc Slovak: dobrý , dobrá , dobré
- ttbc Swahili: -zuri
- ttbc Tamil: நன்று (nanru)
- ttbc Telugu: మంచి
- ttbc Thai: (dee)
- ttbc Tok Pisin: gutpela
- Tupinambá: katu
- ttbc Turkish: iyi
- ttbc Ukrainian: добрий (dóbryj)
- ttbc Urdu: , , p
- ttbc Uzbek: яхши (yaxşi)
- ttbc Welsh: da
- ttbc Yiddish: גוט (gut)
Adverb
good- Well.
- 2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales,
“Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air,
WHYY, Pennsylvania http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874
- 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.
- 2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales,
“Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air,
WHYY, Pennsylvania http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874
Noun
Antonyms
- italbrac-colon forces of good bad, evil
- italbrac-colon positive result bad
Translations
the forces of good
- Arabic: الخَيْر , فَائِدَة
- Bulgarian: добро
- Catalan: bo , bona
- Croatian: dobro
- Czech: dobro
- Danish: godhed
- Dutch: goed, goede
- Finnish: hyvä
- French: bon, bons
- German: das Gute
- Greek: καλός
- Hebrew: טוב (tuv), טוב (tov), טובה (tovah)
- Hungarian: jó
- Indonesian: baik
- Interlingua: ben
- Italian: bene
- Japanese: (, zen)
- Korean: 착함 (chak-ham)
- Latin: bonum, bona
- Latvian: labais
- Manchu: (sain)
- Novial: bonu, bonum
- Polish: dobro , dobroć (kindness)
- Portuguese: bem
- Romanian: bine, bun
- Russian: добро
- Serbian: dobro
- Slovene: dobro
- Spanish: bien
- Swahili: uzuri (noun 11/14)
- Swedish: godhet
- Thai: (khwaam dee), (thām mā)
- Turkish: iyi
- Welsh: da , daioni
good result
Etymology 2
goederen for wares.Noun
- Identical items that are produced, then traded, bought or sold, for the purpose of consumption.
Translations
- See goods
Extensive Definition
Good or goods may refer to:
- Good and evil, in religion, ethics, and philosophy
- Ethic or philosophic good, and object with ethic or philosophic value
- Good (economics and accounting), a useful object or service
- Form of the Good in Platonic philosophy
In music:
- Good (Goodshirt album), the 2001 album by the New Zealand band Goodshirt
- Good (Morphine album), the 1992 album by the American band Morphine
- "Good" (song), a song by Better Than Ezra
In record labels:
- Good Entertainment
- Good Looking Records
- GOOD Music, Kanye West's hip hop and R&B record label
- Good Records
- Good Time Records
People with the surname Good
- Good (surname)
- Good Technology, a company which sells Push e-mail products for mobile phones
- Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)
- GOOD Magazine
- Good (Polish: Dobra) - a town in Poland in Greater Poland Voivodeship in turecki county in Good commune
See also
- Value theory
- Goodness (band)
- Goode, a surname
- Evil
- Bad
good in Catalan: Bé
good in Danish: Godhed
good in German: Good
good in Spanish: Bien
good in French: Good
good in Galician: Ben (homónimos)
good in Ido: Bonajo
good in Hungarian: Jószág
good in Dutch: Goed
good in Portuguese: Bem
good in Simple English: Good
good in Slovak: Tovar
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Christian, Christlike, Christly, Daedalian, God-fearing,
OK, Roger, Sunday, able to pay, absolutely, acceptable, accomplished, according to
Hoyle, ace, actual, adept, adequate, admirable, admissible, adroit, advantage, advantageous, advisable, affable, affectionate, agreeable, all right,
all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, allowable, almighty, alright, alrighty, amazing, ambrosial, amen, amiable, amicable, ample, angelic, appropriate, approving, apt, artistic, as you say, assets, assuredly, attractive, auspicious, authentic, authoritative, avail, aye, bad, balanced, barely sufficient,
becoming, befitting, behalf, behoof, believable, belongings, benediction, beneficent, beneficial, benefit, benevolent, benign, benignant, benignantly, benignly, benison, best, binding, blameless, blessing, blissful, bon, bona fide, bonny, boon, boundless, bracing, brave, bravura, braw, bright, brilliant, brotherly, bueno, by all means, candid, capital, card-carrying, careful, certainly, champion, changeless, charitable, chaste, chattels, cheerful, choice, clean, clever, cloth, cogent, commendable, commensurate, commodities, company, compassionate, compatible, compelling, competent, complaisant, complete, complimentary, condign, congenial, congruous, considerable, considerate, consistent, constitutional, consumable, convenient, convincing, coordinated, cordial, correct, corresponding, crack, crackerjack, cracking, creating, creative, credible, creditable, crucial, cunning, cute, da, daedal, dainty, decent, decorous, defensible, deft, delectable, delicate, delicious, delightful, dependable, deserved, desirable, dexterous, dextrous, dinkum, diplomatic, due, dulcet, edible, effects, elegant, elevated, en rapport, encomiastic, enjoyable, enough, enthusiastic, equal to,
equitable, erect, established, esteemed, estimable, eternal, eternally the same,
ethical, eulogistic, even, evenhanded, everlasting, exactly, excellent, exemplary, expedient, expert, exquisite, extensive, extraordinary, fab, fabric, fabulous, fair, fair and pleasant, fair and
square, famous, fancy, fantastic, favorable, favorably, favoring, feasible, felicific, felicitous, fine, first-class, first-rate,
fit, fitten, fitting, flattering, following the
letter, fortunate,
fraternal, freight, fresh, friendly, fructuous, full, full of integrity, full of
promise, gain, gear, genial, gentle, genuine, gifted, glorious, godlike, godly, godly-minded, godsend, golden, good enough, good for,
good to eat, good-hearted, good-tasting, goodish, goodly, goodness, goods, graceful, gracious, grand, grateful, gratifying, great, groovy, gustable, gusty, hallowed, handy, happy, harmonious, health-enhancing,
health-preserving, healthful, healthy, hear, heart-warming, heavenly, helpful, high-minded,
high-mindedness, high-principled, highest, highly respectable,
holy, holy-minded, honest, honest-to-God, honesty, honeyed, honorable, honorableness, human, humane, humanely, humanly, hygeian, hygienic, immaculate, immortal, immutable, inartificial, indeed, indeedy, infinite, ingenious, integrity, interest, invigorating, inviolate, irreproachable, ja, juicy, just, just so, justifiable, justified, kind, kindhearted, kindheartedly, kindly, kindly-disposed, knockout, kosher, lares and penates,
large, laudable, laudatory, law-abiding,
law-loving, law-revering, lawful, legal, legitimate, level, lifelike, likable, likely, limitless, line, literal, lofty, logical, loving, lucky, luminous, luscious, lush, magisterial, mais oui,
majestic, making, manly, masterful, masterly, material, meet, meet and right, mellifluous, mellow, merchandise, merciful, merit, merited, minimal, minimum, moral, morality, most assuredly,
movables, natural, naturalistic, naturally, naturellement, neat, nectareous, nectarous, needed, nice, nicely, no mean, nobility, noble, normal, normative, numinous, obedient, of course, of good
omen, of gourmet quality, of happy portent, of promise, okay, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, opportune, orderly, original, otherworldly, oui, outstanding, palatable, paraphernalia, passable, penetrating, permanent, permissible, perpetual, personal property,
pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, plenty, plenty good enough,
politic, positive, positively, possessions, precisely, principled, probity, produce, professional, proficient, profit, profitable, promising, proper, propitious, proportionate, prosperity, prosperous, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, quick, quite, quite some, radiant, rather, ready, real, realistic, really, recommendable, rectitude, refreshing, regal, reliable, reputable, resourceful, respectable, respected, rewarding, right, right and proper,
right-minded, righteous, righteousness, rightful, righto, royal, sacred, safe, saintlike, saintly, salubrious, salutary, sanitary, sapid, satisfactory, satisfying, savorous, savory, scrumptious, seasonable, secure, see you later, seemly, self-consistent, sensible, seraphic, serious, shapely, shaping, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sizable, sizeable, skilled, skillful, slick, smart, smashing, softhearted, softheartedly, solicitous, solid, solvent, some, sortable, sound, sovereign, spiritual, spiritual-minded,
splendid, spotless, square, stainless, statesmanlike, sterling, stock, straight, stuff, stylish, substantial, succulent, sufficient, sufficient for,
sufficing, suitable, superb, superior, supreme, sure, sure thing, sure-enough,
surely, sweet, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, talented, tangibles, tasty, tender, tenderhearted, tenderheartedly,
terrific, textile, the compleat, the
complete, things,
thorough, timeless, timely, to be desired, to be
sure, tolerable,
tonic, toothsome, toward, true to life, true to
nature, true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted,
true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truly, trustworthy, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbelievable, unblemished, unbounded, unchanging, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited,
undefiled, undefined, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unearthly, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, unindebted, uninvented, unlimited, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsynthetic, untarnished, unvarnished, unworldly, up to, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, use, useful, usefulness, valid, vendibles, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, very good, very
well, virtue, virtuoso, virtuous, virtuousness, wares, warm, warmhearted, warmheartedly, warmly, warrantable, warranted, weighty, welcome, welfare, well, well and good, well-behaved,
well-being, well-disposed, well-done, well-founded, well-grounded,
well-mannered, well-proportioned, well-thought-of, well-timed,
wholesome, why yes,
wicked, wise, wonderful, word-for-word,
workmanlike, world
of good, worth, worthwhile, worthy, yard goods, yea, yeah, yeomanly, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes
sir, yes sirree, yummy