# good
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: go͝od:
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡʊd/
*** Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
** (General American, New Zealand) IPA: /ɡʊd/, [ɡʊ̈d], [ɡɪ̈d]
*** Audio (General American):(file)
** (General Australian) IPA: /ɡʊd/, [ɡʊd], [ɡud]
** (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ɡʉd/
* (African-American Vernacular) enPR: go͝o(d), IPA: /ɡʊ(d)/
* Rhymes: -ʊd

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”).
Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), "year", via "suitable time".
Related to gather and together, but not to god/God.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English bon, bone, boon, boun (“good”) borrowed from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”).

#### Alternative forms

* goode (obsolete)

#### Adjective

good (comparative better or (nonstandard, humorous) gooder, superlative best or (nonstandard, humorous) goodest)
* (of people or animals)
** Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
    good intentions
*** c. 1525, The Example of Euyll Tongues, page a3 rectoː
    Yf ony man wolde begynne his synnes to reny / Or ony good people that fro vyce dyde refrayne / What so euer he were that to vertue wolde applye / But an yll tonge wyll all ouer throwe agayneIf any man would begin to renounce his sins, / Or any good people who refrained from vice, / Whatsoever he who wished to apply himself to virtue might be, / Still an ill tongue would overthrow it all again.
*** 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 6, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
** Competent or talented.
    a good swimmer
*** 1704, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, On the nature and measure of conscience:Flatter him it may, I confess, (as those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else,) but in the meantime the poor man is left under the fatal necessity of a needless delusion
*** 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
*** 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    And Marsha says I am a good cook!
       Audio (US):(file)
** Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
    Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
** Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
    Be good while your mother and I are out.
    Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
** (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
    Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
    [Are] you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
    Gimme another beer! — I think you're good.
** (colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with
    My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.
    The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?
** (archaic) Of high rank or birth.
*** 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, columns 1–2:Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant; Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue, Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:
* (of capabilities)
** Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
    it’s a good watch;  the flashlight batteries are still good
*** 1526, Herballː
    Against cough and scarceness of breath caused of cold take the drink that it hath been sodden in with Liquorice[,] or that the powder hath been sodden in with dry figs[,] for the same the electuary called dyacalamentum is good[,] and it is made thus.
*** 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
** Effective.
    a good worker
*** 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
** (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
    in good sooth
*** c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Love no man in good earnest.
* (properties and qualities)
** (of food)
*** Having a particularly pleasant taste.
    The food was very good.
*** Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
    Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
** Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
    The bread is still good.
** Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
    This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
** True, valid, of explanatory strength.
    This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
*** 1966, K. Rothfels, Margaret Freeman, “The salivary gland chromosomes of three North American species of Twinnia (Diptera: Simuliidae)”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 44, number 5, →DOI:Twinnia biclavata differs from T. nova by inversion IS-1 and a nucleolar shift. Both are good species.
** Right, proper, as it should be.
*** 15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 184–185:It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone, / In all this welthly wyn;It is not good to be alone / to walk here in this noble dwelling-place / in all this rich delight.
*** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXIV, page 41:If all was good and fair we met, ⁠This earth had been the Paradise ⁠It never look’d to human eyes Since Adam left his garden yet.
** Healthful.
    Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.
** Pleasant; enjoyable.
    We had a good time.
** Favorable.
    a good omen;  good weather
*** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XLIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 361:Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
** Unblemished; honourable.
    a person's good name
** Beneficial; worthwhile.
    a good job
** Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
*** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 212, column 2:[I]f thou ask me why, / Sufficeth my reaſons are both good and waighty.
* (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
    The soup is good and hot.
* (colloquial) Ready.
    I'm good when you are.
    The reports are good to go.
* Holy (especially when capitalized) .
    Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book
* (of quantities)
** Reasonable in amount.
    all in good time
** Large in amount or size.
    a good while longer
    a good number of seeds
    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.
*** 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
** Full; entire; at least as much as.
    This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
    The car was a good ten miles away.
*** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.

##### Usage notes

* The comparative gooder and superlative goodest are nonstandard. In informal (often jocular) contexts, best may be inflected further and given the comparative bester and the superlative bestest; these forms are also nonstandard.

##### Synonyms

* (having positive attributes): not bad, all right, satisfactory, decent, see also Thesaurus:good
* (healthful): well
* (competent or talented): accomplished
* (acting in the interest of good; ethical): See Thesaurus:goodness

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “having positive attributes”): bad, poor
* (antonym(s) of “ethical”): bad, evil

##### Derived terms

* a bad tree does not yield good apples
* a change is as good as a rest
* agood
* a good beginning makes a good ending
* a good conscience is a soft pillow
* a good deal
* a good deed is its own reward
* a good few
* a good look
* a good many
* all good
* all-good
* all good in the hood
* all good things come to an end
* all good things must come to an end
* all in good time
* all publicity is good publicity
* a miss is as good as a mile
* a nod is as good as a wink
* a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
* a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
* anti-good
* any good
* any press is good press
* as good as
* as good as it gets
* as good as new
* badbye
* bad money drives out good
* baked good
* be good for
* better is the enemy of good
* capital good
* certificate of good conduct
* chaotic good
* club good
* come from a good place
* come good
* common good
* complementary good
* consumer good
* deal a good hand
* deficit good
* demerit good
* digital good
* do a power of good
* do good
* dogoodery
* do more harm than good
* do someone's heart good
* do the power of good
* double-plus-good
* do well by doing good
* durable good
* enough is as good as a feast
* every good boy deserves favor
* every good boy deserves favour
* every good boy deserves food
* every good boy deserves fudge
* every good boy deserves fun
* every good boy does fine
* fake good
* fat lot of good
* feel-good
* feelgoodery
* feel-good factor
* fight the good fight
* finger-lickin' good
* finished good
* fire is a good servant but a bad master
* for good
* for good and all
* for good measure
* for good or ill
* for no good reason
* for one's own good
* for the love of all that is good
* from good hands
* get out while the getting's good
* Giffen good
* give a good account of oneself
* give a good damn
* give a good goddamn
* give as good as one gets
* go at a good clip
* godwit
* go gentle into that good night
* Good
* good afternoon
* good and
* good and proper
* good article
* good as gold
* good as new
* good as one's word
* good-ass
* good as wheat in the bin
* good-bad
* good bet
* good bishop
* good black don't crack
* Goodbody
* good boi
* good book
* good books
* good boy
* good breath
* good-brother
* good-by
* good bye
* good-bye
* goodbye
* good-byer
* good cause
* good cess
* good cholesterol
* good coin
* good cookie
* good-cop/bad-cop, good cop/bad cop, good cop bad cop, good-cop bad-cop, good cop-bad cop, good-cop-bad-cop, good cop–bad cop
* good-day, good day
* good deal
* good delivery
* good-den
* good doctor
* good drunk
* good egg
* gooden
* good ending
* good enough
* good enough for government work
* good enough for jazz
* good enough to eat
* good eve
* good evening
* good-evening
* good faith
* goodfella
* good-fellowship
* good fences make good neighbors
* good fences make good neighbours
* goodfic
* good folk
* good for a laugh
* good form
* good-for-naught
* good for nothing
* good-for-nothing
* good-for-nothingness
* good for someone
* good fortune
* Good Friday
* goodful
* good game
* good girl
* good God
* good Goddess
* good going
* good golly
* good-good
* good good
* good graces
* good gracious
* good gravy
* good grief
* good guy
* good head on one's shoulders
* goodhearted
* good-hearted
* good-heartedly
* good-heartedness
* good heavens
* good heav'ns
* good house
* good humor
* good-humor
* good-humored
* good-humoredly
* good-humoredness
* good humour
* good-humour
* good-humoured
* good-humouredly
* good-humouredness
* goodie
* goodification
* goodify
* goodish
* good job
* good-king-henry
* good lack
* Goodlad
* good language
* good law
* good leg
* good length
* goodless
* good lick
* good life
* good liking
* good looker
* good-looking
* good looking
* good-lookingness
* good looks
* good Lord
* good loser
* good luck
* good-luck bone
* goodly
* goodman
* good man
* good manners
* good-minded
* good-mindedness
* good money
* good morn
* good morning
* good morrow
* good name
* good nature
* good-natured
* good-naturedly
* good-naturedness
* good-neighborliness
* good-neighbourliness
* good-neighbourly
* goodness
* good news
* goodnight
* good-night
* good night
* good night's sleep
* good noon
* good now
* goodo
* good-o
* good offices
* good oil
* good ol'
* good ol' boy
* good old
* good old boy
* good old boy network
* good old days
* good old times
* good ole
* good ole boy
* good one
* good on someone
* good people
* good press
* goodput
* good question
* good riddance
* good riddance to bad rubbish
* good run
* Good Samaritan
* good sense
* goodset
* goodship
* good shit
* good show
* goodsire
* good-sized
* goodsome
* good sort
* good speed
* good spirits
* good sport
* good standing
* goodt
* good-tempered
* good-temperedness
* good thing
* good things come in small packages
* good things come in threes
* good things come to those who wait
* goodthink
* good thinking
* good tidings
* good time
* good-time
* good-time Charley
* good time Charley
* good-time Charlie
* good time Charlie
* good time coming
* good time girl
* good-time girl
* good-timer
* good times
* good to go
* good trouble
* good try
* good turn
* good value
* good voice to beg bacon
* good weather
* goodwife
* good will
* goodwill
* good-will
* goodwill ambassador
* good willer
* good wine needs no bush
* good word
* good work
* good works
* goody
* grave good
* grave-good
* greater good
* haggaday
* have a good mind to
* have a good one
* have a good time
* have a good time of it
* have something on good authority
* hellagood
* hold good
* hunger is a good sauce
* I'm good
* impulse good
* inferior good
* in good bread
* in good conscience
* in good hands
* in good odor
* in good odour
* in good part
* in good repair
* in good season
* in good spirits
* in good stead
* in good time
* in good voice
* in one's own good time
* it's all good
* it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
* it's an ill wind that blows no good
* it's an ill wind that blows no one any good
* Joan's as good as my lady in the dark
* job's a good 'un
* jolly good show
* keep good hours
* keep good time
* last known good
* letter of good conduct
* let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
* let the good times roll
* let the perfect be the enemy of the good
* luxury good
* make a good fist of
* make good
* makegood
* make good on
* make good one's running
* make good time
* make the perfect the enemy of the good
* merit good
* much good may it do someone
* nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
* nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
* no-good
* no good
* no good ass
* no-good ass
* no good deed ever goes unpunished
* no good deed goes unpunished
* no news is good news
* nongood
* normal good
* on a good wicket
* one good turn deserves another
* on good terms
* only the good die young
* on someone's good side
* overgood
* pass a good time
* perfection is the enemy of good
* perfect is the enemy of good
* perfect is the enemy of good enough
* positional good
* private good
* producer good
* producer's good
* public good
* pure good
* put in a good word
* put to good use
* quite good
* romping good
* 'sall good
* scattergood
* scrape-good
* show someone a good time
* smallgood
* Small Party of Good Boys
* so far so good
* something good
* stand in good stead
* streak of good luck
* stroygood
* stroy-good
* stry-good
* substitute good
* supergood
* superior good
* talk a good game
* that's a good one
* the best defense is a good offense
* the best is the enemy of the good
* the better is the enemy of the good
* the fox may grow grey but never good
* the good die young
* the good doctor
* the great and the good
* the job's a good 'un
* the perfect is the enemy of the good
* there's a good time coming
* there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
* the road to hell is paved with good intentions
* think good
* throw good money after bad
* today is a good day to die
* Toogood
* too good for this world
* too good to be true
* too good to last
* too much of a good thing
* to the good
* turn to good account
* twelve good men and true
* uber-good
* ultragood
* ungodly
* ungood
* up to no good
* Veblen good
* very good
* walk good
* waste good
* waste-good
* wastegood
* well and good
* what good is
* what's good
* what's good for the goose is good for the gander
* what's the good of
* who's a good boy
* who's a good girl
* will the good of another
* with good grace
* with good reason
* you can't keep a good man down
* you have to be good to be lucky
* you're good
* you're only as good as your last shift
* your good name
* your good self
* your guess is as good as mine
* your money is no good here

##### Descendants

* Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)

##### Translations

Adyghe: шӏу (šʷʼu)
Afrikaans: goed (af)
Albanian: mirë (sq)
Alviri-Vidari: ودر (vader) (Vidari)
Ambonese Malay: bai, ae
American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Amharic: ጥሩ (ṭəru)
Arabic: حَسَن (ar) (ḥasan), جَيِّد (jayyid), طَيِّب (ṭayyib), صَالِح (ar) (ṣāliḥ)
Egyptian Arabic: كويس (kwayyes)
Gulf Arabic: زين (zēn)
Iraqi Arabic: زين (zyen), مليح (mlīḥ), خوش (ḵōš)
Moroccan Arabic: مزِيان (mazyan), ملِيح (mliḥ)
North Levantine Arabic: منيح (mnīḥ), ملِيح (mliḥ)
South Levantine Arabic: طَيِّب (tayyeb), كويس (kwayyes), منيح (mnīḥ)
Tunisian Arabic: باهي (bāhi)
Aramaic: טבא
Argobba: ጥሩ (ṭeru)
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav), բարի (hy) (bari)
Aromanian: bun m, bunã f
Assamese: ভাল (bhal)
Asturian: bonu (ast)
Awadhi: नीक (nīk)
Azerbaijani: yaxşı (az), xeyir (az), xoş (az)
Bashkir: яҡшы (yaqşı)
Belarusian: до́бры (be) (dóbry)
Bengali: ভাল (bn) (bhal), নেক (bn) (nek)
Bhojpuri: नीमन (nīman)
Bikol Central: marhay (bcl)
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r)
Burmese: ကောင်း (my) (kaung:)
Buryat: һайн (hajn)
Catalan: bo (ca), bon (ca)
Cebuano: maayo, maayohon
Chamicuro: pewa
Chechen: дика (dika)
Chickasaw: chokma
Chinese:
Dungan: хо (ho)
Eastern Min: 好 (ho)
Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo), 良 (zh) (liáng)
Coptic: ⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲥ (agathos) (Sahidic, Bohairic)
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Dalmatian: bun m, buna f
Danish: god (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Eastern Bontoc: ammay
Egyptian: (mꜣꜥ)
Elfdalian: guoð
Erromintxela: latxo
Erzya: паро (paro), вадря (vadŕa)
Esperanto: bona (eo)
Estonian: hea (et)
Evenki: ая (aja)
Faliscan: dueno
Faroese: góður (fo)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
Franco-Provençal: bon
French: bon (fr)
Friulian: bon
Galician: boo m, boa (gl) f
Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
German: gut (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs), 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (þiuþeigs)
Greek: καλός (el) (kalós), αγαθός (el) (agathós)
Ancient: ἀγαθός (agathós), ἐσθλός (esthlós) (Epic)
Gujarati: સારું (sārũ)
Haitian Creole: bon
Hebrew: טוֹב (he) (tov)
Higaonon: maayad
Hiligaynon: maayo
Hindi: अच्छा (hi) (acchā), भला (hi) (bhalā), उत्तम (hi) (uttam), नेक (hi) (nek), खूब (hi) (khūb), ख़ूब (xūb), नीति (hi) (nīti)
Hiri Motu: namo
Hittite: 𒀀𒀸𒋗𒍑 (a-aš-šu-uš)
Hungarian: jó (hu)
Icelandic: góður (is)
Ido: benigna (io), bona (io)
Ilocano: naimbag
Indonesian: baik (id)
Ingrian: hyvä
Ingush: дика (dika)
Iranun: mapia
Irish: maith (ga)
Istro-Romanian: bur
Italian: buono (it)
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii), 善意の (ja) (ぜんいの, zen'i no)
Kabardian: фӏы (kbd) (fʼə)
Kalmyk: сән (sän)
Kannada: ಉತ್ತಮ (kn) (uttama)
Kapampangan: mayap
Kashubian: dobri
Kazakh: жақсы (kk) (jaqsy)
Khmer: ល្អ (km) (lʼɑɑ)
Khün: please add this translation if you can
Kikuyu: -ega
Korean: 좋다 (ko) (jota)
Kumyk: яхшы (yaxşı)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: baş (ku)
Kyrgyz: жакшы (ky) (jakşı)
Ladin: bon
Lao: ດີ (lo) (dī)
Latgalian: lobs m
Latin: bonus (la)
Latvian: labs (lv) m
Lithuanian: geras (lt)
Livonian: jõvā
Lombard: bón
Lü: ᦡᦲ (ḋii)
Luxembourgish: gutt
Macedonian: добар (dobar)
Maguindanao: mapia
Malay: baik (ms)
Malayalam: നല്ലത് (ml) (nallatŭ)
Maltese: tajjeb (mt)
Manchu: ᠰᠠᡳᠨ (sain)
Manggarai: di'a
Maori: pai (mi)
Maranao: mapia
Marathi: चांगला (cāṅglā), चांगली (cāṅglī), चांगले (cāṅgle), भला (mr) (bhalā), भली (bhalī), भले (bhale)
Mauritian Creole: bon
Mazanderani: خار (xar)
Mbyá Guaraní: ha'eve, porã
Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭩𐭪 (nyk /⁠nēk⁠/)
Mòcheno: guat
Moksha: пара (para)
Mongolian: сайн (mn) (sajn)
Motu: namo
Nanai: улэн (ulen)
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Nheengatu: katú
North Frisian: gödj
Northern Kankanay: gawis
Northern Thai: ᨯᩦ (di)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: god (no)
Nynorsk: god (nn)
Occitan: bon (oc)
Nǀuu : ǃaba, kqôe, kqʼôe, ǂhuu, ǂhu, tsyînkhi, tsyhînki
Old Church Slavonic: добръ (dobrŭ)
Old Frisian: gōd
Old Javanese: bĕcik
Old Norse: góðr
Old Turkic: 𐰓𐰏𐰇 (edgü)
Ossetian: хорз (xorz)
Papiamentu: bon
Pashto: ښه (ps) (ẍë)
Persian: خوب (fa) (xub), نیک (fa) (nik)
Pijin: gudfala
Plautdietsch: goot (nds)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Punjabi: ਚੰਗਾ (caṅgā)
Quechua: allin
Romagnol: bôn
Romani: laćho
Romanian: bun (ro) m, bună (ro) f
Romansch: bun
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij), до́брый (ru) (dóbryj)
Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu), सु- (su-)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̏бар
Roman: dȍbar (sh)
Shan: လီ (shn) (lǐi)
Sicilian: bonu (scn)
Sinhalese: හොඳ (si) (hoⁿda)
Slovak: dobrý (sk)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Somali: wanaagsan
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dobry
Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb)
Southern Kalinga: mamfaru
Spanish: bueno (es), bon (es) (disused)
Sundanese: hadé
Swahili: nzuri (sw), njema
Swedish: god (sv), bra (sv)
Sylheti: ꠜꠣꠟꠣ (bála)
Tagalog: mabuti, mabait
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: хуб (tg) (xub)
Talysh: (Asalemi) چاک (câk)
Tamil: நன்மை (ta) (naṉmai)
Tarantino: bbuène
Tatar: яхшы (tt) (yaxşı)
Telugu: మంచి (te) (mañci), నీతి (te) (nīti)
Tetum: di'ak
Thai: ดี (th) (dii), ดี ๆ (dii dii)
Tibetan: བཟང (bzang)
Tillamook: də húcsənə
Tok Pisin: gutpela
Turkish: iyi (tr)
Turkmen: gowy (tk), ýagşy
Tzotzil: lek
Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎁 (ṭb)
Ukrainian: до́брий (uk) (dóbryj), хоро́ший (xoróšyj), га́рний (uk) (hárnyj)
Urdu: اچھا m (acchā), بهلا m (bhalā)
Uyghur: ياخشى (ug) (yaxshi)
Uzbek: yaxshi (uz)
Venetan: bon (vec)
Vietnamese: tốt (vi), hay (vi), tuyệt (vi)
Vilamovian: güt
Votic: üvä
Walloon: bon (wa)
Waray-Waray: maupay
Welsh: da (cy)
West Frisian: goed
Western Bukidnon Manobo: me'upiya
White Hmong: zoo
Yagnobi: хуб (xub)
Yakut: үчүгэй (ücügey)
Yiddish: גוט (gut)
Zazaki: weş (diq)
Zealandic: goed
Zhuang: ndei :
American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bulgarian: ху́бав (bg) (húbav)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da), fin
Dutch: goed (nl)
Egyptian: (nfr)
Esperanto: bona (eo)
Finnish: mukava (fi), hauska (fi), kiva (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de), schön (de), angenehm (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs)
Greek: καλός (el) (kalós)
Hebrew: מהנה (mehané), טוב (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche)
Ido: bona (io), benigna (io), agreabla (io)
Italian: buono (it) m
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m, patīkams m
Lithuanian: geras (lt) m
Mòcheno: guat
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Norwegian:
Bokmål: god (no)
Nynorsk: god (nn)
Ojibwe: mino-
Pashto: ښه (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: godno (sh), ugodno (sh), čedno (sh), dobro (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Somali: wacan
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dobry
Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: fetén
Sundanese: saé (su)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)
Telugu: ఉత్సోహకరము (utsōhakaramu)
Tibetan: ཡག་པོ (yag po)
Turkish: iyi (tr)
Welsh: da (cy) :
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#### Interjection

good
* That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
    Good! I can leave now.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish gott (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective.

#### Adverb

good (comparative better, superlative best)
* (informal) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
    When you're cleaning these racks, you've got to get in there good, because the quality system specifies it.
    The boy done good. (did well)
** 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.
** 1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 66:I kept my eyes peeled for signs of pursuit. There was none, unless I was being fooled very good.
** 1972, Harry Chapin, “A Better Place to Be”, in Sniper and Other Love Songs:She said, "I don't want to bother you / Consider it's understood / I know I'm not no beauty queen / But I sure can listen good."
** 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson):Marsellus fucked him up good. Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife.
** 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.
** 2010, Monte Dwyer, Red in the Centre: Through a Crooked Lens, Monyer Pty Ltd, page 14:"They're travellin' good now. We'll leave them be."
** 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel (Priority: Earth):Admiral Anderson: You did good, child. You did good. I'm proud of you.

##### Usage notes

The Germanic cognates (listed at Etymology) illustrate a null morpheme difference from the colexified adjective that is fully standard in those languages, as it would likewise be in modern English too if not for a widespread prescriptive misapprehension. The idea that adverbs in English cannot or should not have a null morpheme difference from the colexified adjective is a widespread notion that bars good (adv) and bad (adv) from formal use even though they are ubiquitous in informal use. It also sometimes drives the misapprehenders to inject -ly hypercorrectively, whereas thusly is usually viewed as prescription run riot, a needless and undesirable replacement of thus.

##### Derived terms

* but good
* a good many

### Etymology 3

Inherited from Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”).

#### Noun

good (countable and uncountable, plural goods)
* (uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
    Antonyms: bad, evil
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
* (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
    Antonym: bad
* (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
    The best is the enemy of the good.
    He is an influence for good on those girls.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 4:6:There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
** 1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers, number 64:[…] the government must be a weak one indeed, if it should forget that the good of the whole can only be promoted by advancing the good of each of the parts or members which compose the whole.
* (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
    Coordinate term: service
** c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

##### Derived terms

* (item of merchandise): capital goods, consumer goods

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

Inherited from Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favorable”).

#### Verb

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded) (now chiefly dialectal)
* (intransitive, now) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
* (transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
* (intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
* (intransitive) To benefit; gain.
* (transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
* (transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
* (reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

##### Derived terms

* gooding

### Etymology 5

From English dialectal, from Middle English *goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above.

#### Verb

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)
* (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
** April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard
    Nature was like itself , in it , in the world : God hath taken it in from the barren downs , and gooded it : his choice did not find , but make it thus

### Etymology 6

Coined in reference to the phrase the only good nigger is a dead nigger, a popular saying among white supremacists.

#### Adjective

good (not comparable)
* (Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) Of a black person, dead or killed.
** 2008 October 17, Anthony X (Janet Arvizo is a disgusting liar, Tom Sneddon is a disgusting racist http://asb-comm-logic.com, “TNB: 36-year-old African American shot to death”, in alt.true-crime‎ (Usenet):Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story.
** 2017 March 21, Rick Mathers, “6 Shitskin Boogs Shot At 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Concert”, in alt.checkmate‎ (Usenet):Sow Sheeboon Savannah Jeanne Walker of Louisville, KY was made good in a shooting at cRap show called 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Saturday night at the Tim Faulkner Art Gallery. 5 other niggers were shot and are expected to survive. No suspooks have been captured.
** 2017 November 7, Casa de los peregrinos, “Groid rage motorist chimps out on motorist”, in soc.culture.african.american‎ (Usenet):The usual nigger nonsense from da fambly. He beez a good daddy to his keeids (I wonder how many more keeids this useless nigger has that the media didn't tell us about.) He wuz juss mindin' his own bidness when da popo got in da way. He din do nuffins. The BLM niggers and their lovers will be chimping out for sure. LEO's already have a tough job as it is, dealing with niggers has to be the worst part of the job. I'm glad that coon was made good.
** 2023 May 4, JeSSe, “White US Marine kills black felon in self defense - BLM/antifa threaten riots if he is not arrested and found guilty”, in uk.current-events.terrorism‎ (Usenet):Bolsheviks have got to be in heat over this, a nigger with well over 40 arrests including violent assault is properly made good for threatening people on the subway, will the law abiding law defending hero be thrown under the bus to appease blacks [again]?

##### Derived terms

* goodening

### Further reading

* “good”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “good”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “good”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Chinese
### Etymology

Romanisation of 嗗 (gut$^4$, gut$^6$, gut$^2$), influenced by spelling of English good. Not related to English good semantically.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): gut$^4$, gut$^6$, gut$^2$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gut$^4$, gut$^6$, gut$^2$
*** Yale: gùht, guht, gút
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gut$^4$, gut$^9$, gut$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gud$^4$, gud$^6$, gud$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /kuːt̚²¹ kuːt̚² kuːt̚³⁵/

### Noun

good (Hong Kong Cantonese)
* Nonstandard form of 嗗 (“sound of gulp”).

### Verb

good
* Nonstandard form of 嗗 (“to gulp”).

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Adjective

good
* good

## Limburgish
### Alternative forms

* gott (Eupen)
* joot (Krefeld)

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch goet.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ʝoː˦d], [ʝoː˦t]

### Adjective

good (comparative baeter, superlative bès, predicative superlative 't 't bès)
* good

#### Inflection
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* god, gode, goed, gude

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡoːd/
* Rhymes: -oːd

### Adjective

good (plural and weak singular gode, comparative bettre, superlative best)
* good (of good quality or behaviour)
* good (morally right or righteous)
** 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue:
    and certeinly he was a good felaweand certainly he was a good fellow
* advantageous, wealthy, profitable, useful
* large; of a great size or quantity
* having a great degree or extent
* (of food) tasting pleasant
** 1381, Pegge Cook, Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
    For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
    Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Related terms

* goderhele
* goodles
* goodnesse
* gospel

#### Descendants

* English: good, goode (obsolete)
** Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)
* Scots: guid
* Yola: gooude, gude, gayde

#### References

* “gọ̄d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.