good
Meanings
- Of a person or an animal:
- Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
- Competent or talented.
- Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
- Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
- Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
- Accepting of, OK with
- Of high rank or birth.
- Of a capability:
- Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
- Effective.
- Real; actual; serious.
- That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
- Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
- The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
- The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
- An item of merchandise.
- An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).
- To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
- To make good; turn to good; improve.
- To make improvements or repairs.
- To benefit; gain.
- To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
- To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
- To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
- To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
- Of a black person, dead or killed.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
- Plato's metaprinciple of proper systemic function between principles; the fundamental Platonic form which enables knowledge and metacognition, from which other concepts such as truth, justice and virtue derive meaning.
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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, goei (“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, 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”).