good
Part of speech: adj
intj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit, fit”).
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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots gude, guid (“good”), Yola gayde, gooude, gude (“good”), North Frisian goud, gud, guid, gur, gödj, gööd (“good”), Saterland Frisian goud (“good”), West Frisian goed (“good”), Alemannic German guet (“good”), Bavarian guad (“good”), Central Franconian gut, jot, jott (“good”), Cimbrian guat, guut (“good”), Dutch goed (“good”), Dutch Low Saxon good (“good”), German gut (“good”), Limburgish good, gott (“good”), Low German god, goot, got, gued (“good”), Luxembourgish gutt (“good”), Mòcheno guat (“good”), Vilamovian güt (“good”), Yiddish גוט (gut, “good”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish god (“good”), Elfdalian guoð (“good”), Faroese and Icelandic góður (“good”), Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs, “good”), Vandalic *guths (“good”); also Albanian nge (“chance, leisure, opportunity, time”), Latvian gods (“honor”), Lithuanian guõdas (“nobleness, virtue; glory, honour”), Belarusian го́дны (hódny, “worthy”), Bulgarian го́ден (góden, “fit, suitable”), Czech hodný (“good, kind”), Polish godny, godzien (“dignified, worthy”), Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), Ukrainian гі́дний (hídnyj, “deserving, worthy”), го́дний (hódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”).
Inflected forms:
form: better
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gooder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
humorous
nonstandard
form: best
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: goodest
pos: adj
tags: humorous
nonstandard
superlative
form: gooid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: gud
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Internet
nonstandard
form: goode
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: gooid
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: gud
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Internet
nonstandard
form: goode
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: better
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: best
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: goods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
examples: 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 agayne
If 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.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
examples: a good swimmer
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
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.
And Marsha says I am a good cook!
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
examples: Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
examples: Be good while your mother and I are out.
Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: 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.
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: 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?
gloss: Of a person or an animal:
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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:
gloss: Of a capability:
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Of a capability:
pos: adj
examples: a good worker
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.
gloss: Of a capability:
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: in good sooth
Love no man in good earnest.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: The food was very good.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: The bread is still good.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
Twinnia biclavata differs from T. nova by inversion IS-1 and a nucleolar shift. Both are good species.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone, / In all this welthly wyn;
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.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: We had a good time.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: a good omen;  good weather
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.
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: a person's good name
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: a good job
gloss: Of a property or quality:
pos: adj
examples: [I]f thou ask me why, / Sufficeth my reaſons are both good and waighty.
gloss: Very, extremely. See good and.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The soup is good and hot.
gloss: Ready.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I'm good when you are.
The reports are good to go.
gloss: Holy (especially when capitalized) .
pos: adj
examples: Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book
gloss: Of a quantity:
pos: adj
examples: all in good time
gloss: Of a quantity:
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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,[…].
gloss: Of a quantity:
pos: adj
examples: This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
The car was a good ten miles away.
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.
gloss: Special, best, favorite.
pos: adj
examples: No, not that one. That's my good shirt I only wear for special occasions.
Shoot! A tear. And these are my good jeans.
gloss: That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
pos: intj
examples: Good! I can leave now.
gloss: Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
proscribed
sometimes
examples: When you're cleaning these racks, you've got to get in there good, because the quality system specifies it.
The boy done good.
This recipe calls for a good-sized chunk of chocolate.
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.
I kept my eyes peeled for signs of pursuit. There was none, unless I was being fooled very good.
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."
Marsellus fucked him up good. Word 'round the campfire is it was on account of Marsellus Wallace's wife.
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.
"They're travellin' good now. We'll leave them be."
Admiral Anderson: You did good, child. You did good. I'm proud of you.
gloss: The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
AI engineers hold in their hands the power to do extraordinary good—closing gaps in education, unlocking medical breakthroughs, accelerating climate solutions—or, if they lose sight of the people their creations serve, to cause deep harm.
gloss: A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The best is the enemy of the good.
He is an influence for good on those girls.
There be many that say, Who will show us any good? Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
[…]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.
gloss: An item of merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
examples: Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.
gloss: An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
Synonyms: all right
satisfactory
decent
acceptable
agreeable
amazing
as fine as Dick's hatband
awesome
beatific
bene
blissful
bodacious
bona
brilliant
celestial
commendable
cool
dandy as candy
delightful
divine
enjoyable
excellent
exceptional
fabulous
fantastic
fine
goated
goloptious
good as wheat in the bin
gratifying
great
heavenlike
heavenly
incredible
lovely
magnificent
marvelous
neat
nice
outstanding
perfect
phenomenal
pleasant
pleasing
positive
rad
radical
right as rain
satisfying
solid
splendid
stellar
stupendous
super
superb
sweet
sweet as a nut
terrific
tubular
wicked
wonderful
wondrous
Antonyms: bad
poor
evil
awful
detestable
disagreeable
dreadful
horrible
terrible
unsatisfactory
Related words: goodness
intermediate
moderate
Derived words: 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
all good
all-good
all good in the hood
all good things
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
anti-good
any exposure is good exposure
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
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
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 boys deserve fudge always
good breath
good-brother
good-by
good bye
good-bye
goodbye
good-byer
good cause
good cess
good cholesterol
good class bungalow
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 Forest
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 girl art
good God
good Goddess
good going
good golly
good-good
good good
good graces
good gracious
good gravy
good grief
good guy
good hair
good head on one's shoulders
good-hearted
goodhearted
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 laugh
good law
good leaver
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
good man
goodman
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
good-night
good night
goodnight
good night's sleep
good noon
good now
good-o
goodo
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 PM
good press
goodput
Good Queen Bess
good question
good riddance
good riddance to bad rubbish
good riddings
good run
Good Samaritan
good sense
goodset
goodship
good shit
good show
goodsire
good-size
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
goodwill
good will
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 a good weekend
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 sorts
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
lawful 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
makegood
make good
make-good
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
my good man
neutral good
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
pay good money after bad
perfection is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good enough
pitch good money after bad
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
spend good money after bad
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
whatcha know 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
a good many
capital goods
consumer goods
consumption good
G2P
goods-to-person
goods-to-picker
item of merchandise
picker-to-goods
producers' good
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: լավ
roman: lav
lang: Bengali
word: তাজা
roman: taja
lang: Bulgarian
word: добъ́р
roman: dobǎ́r
lang: Bulgarian
word: го́ден
roman: góden
lang: Catalan
word: bo
lang: Czech
word: dobrý
lang: Danish
word: god
lang: Dutch
word: goed
lang: Finnish
word: hyvä
lang: Galician
word: bo
lang: Georgian
word: კარგი
roman: ḳargi
lang: German
word: gut
lang: Hebrew
word: אכיל
lang: Hebrew
word: טוב
roman: tóv
lang: Hindi
word: ताज़ा
roman: tāzā
lang: Hindi
word: ताजा
roman: tājā
lang: Ido
word: bona
lang: Ido
word: manjebla
lang: Italian
word: buono
lang: Italian
word: mangiabile
lang: Japanese
word: 大丈夫な
roman: daijōbu na
lang: Latvian
word: labs
lang: Luxembourgish
word: gutt
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: god
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: god
lang: Pashto
word: ښه
roman: ẍë
lang: Plautdietsch
word: goot (nds)
lang: Polish
word: dobry
lang: Portuguese
word: bom
lang: Russian
word: хоро́ший
roman: xoróšij
lang: Russian
word: го́дный
roman: gódnyj
lang: Russian
word: неиспо́рченный
roman: neispórčennyj
lang: Scots
word: guid
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: math
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vàljān
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dȍbar
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: dobry
lang: Spanish
word: bueno
lang: Swahili
word: mzuri
lang: Swedish
word: bra
lang: Telugu
word: తాజా
roman: tājā
lang: Welsh
word: blasus