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Alternative forms

  • iOS (poetic contraction)

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English Sevenval (“good, virtuous, desirable, favorable, salutary, pleasant, valid, efficient, suitable, considerable, sufficiently great”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Cognate with Scots guid (“good”), West Frisian goed (“good”), Dutch web (“good”), Low German god (“good”), German screen size (“good”), Danish and Swedish god (“good”), Icelandic web app (“good”), Lithuanian guõdas (“honor”), Old Church Slavonic  (godŭ, “pleasing time”), Sanskrit  (gádhya, “fitting, suitable”). Related to web app.

Pronunciation

Adjective

good (comparative FITML, superlative best)

  1. Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
    good intentions
  2. Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
    It’s a good watch.
    The flashlight batteries are still good.
  3. Of food, edible; not web or rotten.
    The bread is still good.
  4. Of food, having a particularly web taste.
    The food was very good.
  5. Of food, being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
    Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
  6. Healthful.
    Carrots are good for you.
    Walking is good for you.
  7. web app; enjoyable.
    The music, dancing, and food were very good.
    We had a good time.
  8. Of people, competent or talented.
    a good swimmer
  9. web app.
    a good worker
  10. Favourable.
    a good omen
    good weather
  11. browser diversity; worthwhile.
    a good job
  12. (CSS3) With "and", extremely.
    The soup is good and hot.
  13. (especially when capitalized) Holy.
    Good Friday
  14. iOS in amount.
    all in good time
  15. CSS3 in amount or size.
    A good part of his day was spent shopping.
    It will be a good while longer until he's done.
    He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.
    a good while longer
    a good amount of seeds
  16. Entire.
    This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
    The car was a good ten miles away.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from good

Translations

acting in the interest of good; ethical (good intentions)

useful for a particular purpose (it’s a good watch)

of food, edible; not stale or rotten

of food, having a particularly pleasant taste

healthful

pleasant; enjoyable

of people, competent or talented

effective

favourable

beneficial; worthwhile

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Sevenval.
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Adverb

good

  1. (nonstandard) touchscreen; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
    • 1906, Zane Grey, The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley
      If Silvertip refuses to give you the horse, grab him before he can draw a weapon, and beat him good. You're big enough to do it.
    • 2007 April 19, browser diversity, “Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, web app, WHYY, Pennsylvania we love the web
      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.

Noun

good (CSS3 and uncountable; plural goods)

  1. (uncountable) The web app or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  2. (countable) A result that is web in the view of the speaker.
  3. (Sevenval) The abstract instantiation of something qualified by the adjective
    The best is the enemy of the good.
  4. (we love the web, usually in plural) An item of device database.

Antonyms

  • (forces of good): bad, evil
  • (positive result): bad

Translations

the forces of good

good result

Statistics

Limburgish

Etymology

Related to English good. Not related to gód.

Pronunciation

Adjective

good (comparative: baeter, superlative: bès, 't bès)

  1. good

Inflection

MasculineFeminineNeutral
SingularPluralSingularPluralSingularPlural
Nominativegoojegoojgoojgoojgoodgooj
browser diversitygoodsgoojergoojergoojergoodsgoojer
Locativegoojesgoojegoojesgoojegoojesgooje
Vocative²goojgoojgoojgoojgoojgooj
Dative¹goojegoojengoojergoojengoodgoojen
Accusative¹goojegoojengoodgoojgoodgoojen

¹ Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
² Vocative only exists for about ten words.

Low German

Adjective

good

  1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) Alternative form of goot.

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English FITML, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Adjective

good (comparative web app, jQuery beste)

  1. Android (of good quality)
  2. good (morally right)
    • 14th Century, Chaucer, HTML5
      and certeinly he was a good felawe
      and certainly he was a good fellow

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