good
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
Middle English < Old English gōd < Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, *gothaz < Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“‘to unite, be associated, be suitable’”).
[edit] Adjective
good (comparative better, superlative best)
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- Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
- good intentions
- (A date for this quote is being sought): 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.
- good for you
- Pleasant; enjoyable.
- a good time
- Of people, competent or talented.
- a good swimmer
- Effective.
- a good worker
- Favourable.
- a good omen
- good weather
- Beneficial; worthwhile.
- a good job
- (colloquial) With "and", extremely. (The soup is good and hot.)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Goody-goody; lacking in spirit or personality.
- (especially when capitalized) Holy.
- Reasonable in amount.
- all in good time
- 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.
- a good while longer
- a good amount of seeds
- For the better part of one hundred years, this was the home of Cook County Hospital.
- Entire.
- This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
- The car was a good ten miles away.
[edit] Quotations
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terms derived from "good"
[edit] Translations
acting in the interest of good; ethical (good intentions)
useful for a particular purpose (it’s a good watch)
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of food, edible; not stale or rotten
of food, having a particularly pleasant taste
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of food, healthful; full of vitamins and minerals
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pleasant; enjoyable
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of people, competent or talented
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effective
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favourable
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beneficial; worthwhile
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[edit] Adverb
good
- (nonstandard) Well.
- 2007 April 19, Jimmy Wales, “Jimmy Wales on the User-Generated Generation”, Fresh Air, WHYY, Pennsylvania [1]
- 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 [1]
[edit] Noun
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good (countable and uncountable; plural goods)
- (uncountable) The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of something qualified by the adjective; e.g., "The best is the enemy of the good."
- (countable, usually in plural) An item of merchandise.
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the forces of good
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good result
[edit] Limburgish
[edit] Etymology
Related to English good. Not related to gód.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [ʝoː˦d] ~ [ʝoː˦t]
[edit] Adjective
good (comparative: baeter, superlative: bès, 't bès)
[edit] Inflection
| Masculine | Feminine | Neutral | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | gooje | gooj | gooj | gooj | good | gooj |
| Genitive | goods | goojer | goojer | goojer | goods | goojer |
| Locative | goojes | gooje | goojes | gooje | goojes | gooje |
| Vocative² | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj | gooj |
| Dative¹ | gooje | goojen | goojer | goojen | good | goojen |
| Accusative¹ | gooje | goojen | good | gooj | good | goojen |
- Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
- Vocative only exists for about ten words.
Categories: Middle English derivations | Old English derivations | ang:Proto-Germanic derivations | Proto-Indo-European derivations | English adjectives | Colloquial | Translations to be checked (Hittite) | Nonstandard | English nouns | English uncountable nouns | English countable nouns | 100 English basic words | English suppletive adjective paradigms | Limburgish adjectives

