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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor: a good experience; good news from the hospital.
  • adj. Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing: a good exterior paint; a good joke.
  • adj. Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable: Is this a good dress for the party?
  • adj. Not spoiled or ruined: The milk is still good.
  • adj. In excellent condition; sound: a good tooth.
  • adj. Superior to the average; satisfactory: a good student.
  • adj. Used formerly to refer to the U.S. Government grade of meat higher than standard and lower than choice.
  • adj. Of high quality: good books.
  • adj. Discriminating: good taste.
  • adj. Worthy of respect; honorable: ruined the family's good name.
  • adj. Attractive; handsome: good looks.
  • adj. Beneficial to health; salutary: a good night's rest.
  • adj. Competent; skilled: a good machinist.
  • adj. Complete; thorough: a good workout.
  • adj. Reliable; sure: a good investment.
  • adj. Valid or true: a good reason.
  • adj. Genuine; real: a good dollar bill.
  • adj. In effect; operative: a warranty good for two years; a driver's license that is still good.
  • adj. Able to continue in a specified activity: I'm good for another round of golf.
  • adj. Able to pay or contribute: Is she good for the money that you lent her?
  • adj. Able to elicit a specified reaction: He is always good for a laugh.
  • adj. Ample; substantial: a good income.
  • adj. Bountiful: a good table.
  • adj. Full: It is a good mile from here.
  • adj. Pleasant; enjoyable: had a good time at the party.
  • adj. Propitious; favorable: good weather; a good omen.
  • adj. Of moral excellence; upright: a good person.
  • adj. Benevolent; kind: a good soul; a good heart.
  • adj. Loyal; staunch: a good Republican.
  • adj. Well-behaved; obedient: a good child.
  • adj. Socially correct; proper: good manners.
  • adj. Sports Landing within bounds or within a particular area of a court and therefore in play: The first serve was wide, but the second was good.
  • adj. Sports Passing between the uprights of the goal and therefore scoring, as a field goal in football.
  • adj. Used to form exclamatory phrases expressing surprise or dismay: Good heavens! Good grief!
  • n. Something that is good.
  • n. A good, valuable, or useful part or aspect.
  • n. Welfare; benefit: for the common good.
  • n. Goodness; virtue: There is much good to be found in people.
  • n. Commodities; wares: frozen goods.
  • n. Portable personal property.
  • n. Fabric; material.
  • n. Slang Incriminating information or evidence: tried to get the goods on the crook.
  • ad. Informal Well.
  • idiom. as good as Practically; nearly: as good as new.
  • idiom. but good Informal Used as an intensive: The pipe started to leak but good.
  • idiom. for good Permanently; forever: I'm moving to Europe for good.
  • idiom. good and Informal Very; thoroughly: I'll do it when I'm good and ready.
  • idiom. no good Informal Worthless.
  • idiom. no good Informal Futile; useless: It's no good arguing with them.
  • idiom. to the good For the best; advantageous.
  • idiom. to the good In an advantageous financial position: ended up to the good.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
  • v. To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
  • adj. Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
  • adj. Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
  • adj. Of food, edible; not stale or rotten.
  • adj. Of food, having a particularly pleasant taste.
  • adj. Of food, being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
  • adj. Healthful.
  • adj. Pleasant; enjoyable.
  • adj. Of people, competent or talented.
  • adj. Effective.
  • adj. Favourable.
  • adj. Beneficial; worthwhile.
  • adj. With "and", extremely.
  • adj. Holy.
  • adj. Reasonable in amount.
  • adj. Large in amount or size.
  • adj. Entire.
  • interjection. That is good: an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
  • n. The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  • n. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  • n. The abstract instantiation of something qualified by the adjective
  • n. An item of merchandise.
  • v. To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
  • v. To make good; turn to good; improve.
  • v. To make improvements or repairs.
  • v. To benefit; gain.
  • v. To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
  • v. To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
  • v. To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.
  • adj. Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.
  • adj. Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.
  • adj. Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.
  • adj. Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at.
  • adj. Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.
  • adj. Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.
  • adj. Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.
  • adj. Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.
  • adj. Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.
  • n. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.
  • n. Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.
  • n. Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.
  • ad. Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.
  • v. To make good; to turn to good.
  • v. To mature; to improve.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Serving as a means to a desired end or a purpose; suited to need or requirement; fit; suitable; serviceable; advantageous; beneficial; profitable.
  • Satisfactory in kind, quantity, quality, or degree
  • Adequate; sufficient; without shortcoming or defect; thorough: as, to give good security; to take good heed.
  • Suitable in state or condition; sufficient in character or capacity; competent; qualified; fit: as, he is good, or his credit is good, for the sum required; a horse good for five years' service.
  • Of full measure or amount; reckoned to the utmost limit; without abatement; full; complete: as, a good bushel; it is a good day's journey from here.
  • Considerable; more than a little; rather large, great, long, or the like: as, a good way off; a good deal.
  • Not a counterfeit or imitation; real; genuine; hence, actual; serious: as, a good dollar; in good earnest.
  • Competent; skilful; dexterous; handy; clever; apt: as, a good lawyer; a good workman; a good oarsman; to be good at riming.
  • Possessing or characterized by moral excellence; free from evil or wickedness; virtuous; righteous; pure: applied to persons, or to their nature, conduct, thoughts, etc.: as, a good man; good conduct; good thoughts.
  • Kind; friendly; gracious; hence, humane; merciful; benevolent; as, a good old soul; to do one a good turn; good nature.
  • Fair; untarnished; honorable; becoming a virtuous person; as, a good nature.
  • Worthy: used in complimentary speech or address, as in good sir, good madam, my good man, etc.
  • Practically the same as; on the verge of being or becoming, or in an equivalent state to being.
  • In effect; by clear implication: practically: as, he as good as promised it to me.
  • Considerable rapidity: used elliptically as an adverb.
  • To confirm or establish; prove; verify: as, to make good a charge or an accusation.
  • To provide or supply; make up: as, I will make good what is wanting.
  • To supply an equivalent for; make up for: as, if you suffer loss, I will make it good to you.
  • To maintain; defend; preserve intact.
  • To carry into effect; succeed in making; or effecting; as, to make good a retreat.
  • n. That which is desirable, or is an object of desire.
  • n. That which has worth or desirable qualities, and is or may be made advantageous or beneficial; whatever is adapted and conduces to happiness, advantage, benefit, or profit; that which contributes to pleasure, or is a source of satisfaction; a good thing, state, or condition.
  • n. Advantage: benefit; profit; satisfaction: opposed to evil, harm, etc.: as, it does me good to hear you laugh; it will do no good; hence, welfare; well-being; advancement of interest or happiness: as, to labor for the common good.
  • n. A personal possession; a thing, or things collectively, belonging to one.
  • n. plural Movable effects or personal chattels; articles of portable property, as distinguished from money, lands, buildings, ships, rights in action, etc.: as, household goods.
  • n. Specifically plural Articles of trade; commodities; wares; merchandise.
  • n. A piece of dry-goods; a textile fabric; cloth of any kind: as, will these goods (that is, this piece of goods) wash ?
  • n. A full ending or conclusion; a closing act; a finality: only in the phrase for good, or for good and all.
  • Well.
  • That is good: an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
  • To make good.
  • To manure.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. capable of pleasing
  • adj. generally admired
  • adj. with or in a close or intimate relationship
  • adj. morally admirable
  • adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
  • adj. most suitable or right for a particular purpose
  • n. moral excellence or admirableness
  • adj. not left to spoil
  • n. articles of commerce
  • adj. tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
  • adj. financially sound
  • adj. in excellent physical condition
  • adj. thorough
  • adj. having the normally expected amount
  • adj. agreeable or pleasing
  • n. that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
  • ad. completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')
  • adj. not forged
  • adj. exerting force or influence
  • adj. having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
  • ad. (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')
  • adj. deserving of esteem and respect
  • adj. promoting or enhancing well-being
  • adj. resulting favorably
  • n. benefit
  • adj. of moral excellence
  • adj. appealing to the mind
  • Equivalent
    pleasing    discriminating    close    angelical    beatific    saintly    angelic    goody-goody    redemptive    sainted   
    Antonym
    bad    faulty    evil   
    Variant
    better    best   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    serviceable    useful    fit    excellent    admirable    commendable    virtuous    pious    religious    kind   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hood    Wood    could    goode    hood    misunderstood    should    stood    understood    withstood   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    new    excellent    interest    poor    human    pretty    control-freak    well-realized    pronounced    collegial