good

adj

1. Of a person or an animal:

   “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.”

2. Of a person or an animal:

   “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!”

3. Of a person or an animal:

   “Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.”

4. Of a person or an animal:

   “Be good while your mother and I are out.”

   “Were you a good boy for the babysitter?”

5. (US)Of a person or an animal:

   “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.”

6. (colloquial)Of a person or an animal:

   “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?”

7. (archaic)Of a person or an animal:

   “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:”

8. Of a capability:

   “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.”

9. Of a capability:

   “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.”

10. (obsolete)Of a capability:

    “in good sooth”

    “Love no man in good earnest.”

11. Of a property or quality:

    “The food was very good.”

12. Of a property or quality:

    “Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.”

13. Of a property or quality:

    “The bread is still good.”

14. Of a property or quality:

    “This coupon is good for a free doughnut.”

15. Of a property or quality:

    “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.”

16. Of a property or quality:

    “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.”

17. Of a property or quality:

    “Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.”

18. Of a property or quality:

    “We had a good time.”

19. Of a property or quality:

    “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.”

20. Of a property or quality:

    “a person's good name”

21. Of a property or quality:

    “a good job”

22. Of a property or quality:

    “[I]f thou ask me why, / Sufficeth my reaſons are both good and waighty.”

23. (colloquial)Very, extremely. See good and.

    “The soup is good and hot.”

24. (colloquial)Ready.

    “I'm good when you are.”

    “The reports are good to go.”

25. Holy (especially when capitalized) .

    “Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book”

26. Of a quantity:

    “all in good time”

27. Of a quantity:

    “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.”

28. Of a quantity:

    “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.”

29. Special, best, favorite.

    “No, not that one. That's my good shirt I only wear for special occasions.”

    “Shoot! A tear. And these are my good jeans.”

30. (Internet, dialectal, ethnic, not-comparable, offensive, slur)Of a black person, dead or killed.

    “Another evil nigger made good. I love a good news story.”

    “Sow Sheeboon Savannah Jeanne Walker of Louisville, KY was made good in a shooting at cRap show called 'A Boogie With The Hoodie' Saturday night at the Tim Faulkner Art Gallery. 5 other niggers were shot and are expected to survive. No suspooks have been captured.”

    “The usual nigger nonsense from da fambly. He beez a good daddy to his keeids (I wonder how many more keeids this useless nigger has that the media didn't tell us about.) He wuz juss mindin' his own bidness when da popo got in da way. He din do nuffins. The BLM niggers and their lovers will be chimping out for sure. LEO's already have a tough job as it is, dealing with niggers has to be the worst part of the job. I'm glad that coon was made good.”

    “Bolsheviks have got to be in heat over this, a nigger with well over 40 arrests including violent assault is properly made good for threatening people on the subway, will the law abiding law defending hero be thrown under the bus to appease blacks [again]?”

intj

1. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.

   “Good! I can leave now.”

adv

1. (informal, proscribed, sometimes)Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

   “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.”

noun

1. (uncountable)The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.

   “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.”

2. (countable)A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
3. (uncountable)The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.

   “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.”

4. (countable, plural-normally)An item of merchandise.

   “Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.”

5. (countable, plural-normally)An article of personal property (as opposed to real property).

verb

1. (dialectal, intransitive)To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
2. (dialectal, transitive)To make good; turn to good; improve.
3. (dialectal, intransitive)To make improvements or repairs.
4. (dialectal, intransitive)To benefit; gain.
5. (dialectal, transitive)To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
6. (dialectal, transitive)To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
7. (dialectal, reflexive)To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
8. (Scotland, dialectal, transitive)To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.

   “April 5 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Blessings, Sins, and Judgments of God's Vineyard Nature was like itself , in it , in the world : God hath taken it in from the barren downs , and gooded it : his choice did not find , but make it thus”

name

1. A surname.

   “As The New York Times reported, bystander footage filmed from several different angles shows that the agent who shot Good wasn’t in the path of her S.U.V. when he fired on her.”

2. An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
3. 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.