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In many Western religions, angels are considered to be good beings and are contrasted with demons, who are considered as their evil contemporaries.

In most contexts, the concept of good denotes the conduct that should be preferred when posed with a choice between possible actions. Good is generally considered to be the opposite of evil and is of interest in the study of ethics, morality, philosophy, and religion. The specific meaning and etymology of the term and its associated translations among ancient and contemporary languages show substantial variation in its inflection and meaning, depending on circumstances of place and history, or of philosophical or religious context.

History of Western ideas[edit]

Every language has a word expressing good in the sense of «having the right or desirable quality» (ἀρετή) and bad in the sense «undesirable». A sense of moral judgment and a distinction «right and wrong, good and bad» are cultural universals.^[1]

Plato and Aristotle[edit]

Although the history of the origin of the use of the concept and meaning of «good» are diverse, the notable discussions of Plato and Aristotle on this subject have been of significant historical effect. The first references that are seen in Plato’s The Republic to the Form of the Good are within the conversation between Glaucon and Socrates (454c–d). When trying to answer such difficult questions pertaining to the definition of justice, Plato identifies that we should not «introduce every form of difference and sameness in nature» instead we must focus on «the one form of sameness and difference that was relevant to the particular ways of life themselves”, which is the form of the Good. This form is the basis for understanding all other forms, it is what allows us to understand everything else. Through the conversation between Socrates and Glaucon (508a–c) Plato analogizes the form of the Good with the sun as it is what allows us to see things. Here, Plato describes how the sun allows for sight. But he makes a very important distinction, «sun is not sight», but it is «the cause of sight itself». As the sun is in the visible realm, the form of Good is in the intelligible realm. It is «what gives truth to the things known and the power to know to the knower». It is not only the «cause of knowledge and truth, it is also an object of knowledge».

Plato identifies how the form of the Good allows for the cognizance to understand such difficult concepts as justice. He identifies knowledge and truth as important, but through Socrates (508d–e) says, «good is yet more prized». He then proceeds to explain that «although the good is not being» it is «superior to it in rank and power», it is what «provides for knowledge and truth» (508e).^[2]

In contrast to Plato, Aristotle discusses the Forms of Good in critical terms several times in both of his major surviving ethical works, the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle argues that Plato’s Form of the Good does not apply to the physical world, for Plato does not assign «goodness» to anything in the existing world. Because Plato’s Form of the Good does not explain events in the physical world, humans have no reason to believe that the Form of the Good exists and the Form of the Good thereby, is irrelevant to human ethics.^[3]

Plato and Aristotle were not the first contributors in ancient Greece to the study of the «good» and discussion preceding them can be found among the pre-Socratic philosophers. In Western civilisation, the basic meanings of κακός and ἀγαθός are «bad, cowardly» and «good, brave, capable», and their absolute sense emerges only around 400 BC, with Pre-Socratic philosophy, in particular Democritus.^[4] Morality in this absolute sense solidifies in the dialogues of Plato, together with the emergence of monotheistic thought (notably in Euthyphro, which ponders the concept of piety (τὸ ὅσιον) as a moral absolute). The idea is further developed in Late Antiquity by Neoplatonists, Gnostics, and Church Fathers.

Ancient western religions[edit]

Faravahar (or Ferohar), one of the primary symbols of Zoroastrianism, believed to be the depiction of a Fravashi (a guardian spirit)

Aside from ancient Greek studies of the «good», more than twenty-five hundred years ago in the eastern part of ancient Persia a religious philosopher called Zoroaster simplified the pantheon of early Iranian deities ^[5] into two opposing forces: Ahura Mazda (Illuminating Wisdom) and Angra Mainyu (Destructive Spirit) that were in conflict.

For the western world, this idea developed into a religion that spawned many sects, some of which embraced an extreme dualistic belief that the material world should be shunned and the spiritual world should be embraced. Gnostic ideas influenced many ancient religions,^[6] which teach that gnosis (variously interpreted as enlightenment, salvation, emancipation, or «oneness with God») may be reached by practising philanthropy to the point of personal poverty, sexual abstinence (as far as possible for hearers and totally for initiates), and diligently searching for wisdom by helping others.^[7]

This development from the relative or habitual to the absolute is evident in the terms ethics and morality as well, both being derived from terms for «regional custom», Greek ἦθος and Latin mores, respectively (see also siðr).

Medieval period in western cultures[edit]

Medieval Christian philosophy was founded on the work of Bishop Augustine of Hippo and theologian Thomas Aquinas, who understood evil in terms of Biblical infallibility and Biblical inerrancy, as well as the influences of Plato and Aristotle, in their appreciation of the concept of the Summum bonum. Silent contemplation was the route to appreciation of the Idea of the Good.^[8]

Many medieval Christian theologians both broadened and narrowed the basic concept of Good and Evil until it came to have several, sometimes complex definitions such as:^[9]

a personal preference or subjective judgment regarding any issue that might earn praise or punishment from the religious authorities
religious obligation arising from Divine law leading to sainthood or damnation
a generally accepted cultural standard of behaviour that might enhance group survival or wealth
natural law or behaviour that induces strong emotional reaction
statute law imposing a legal duty

Modern concepts[edit]

Kant[edit]

A significant enlightenment context for studying the «good» has been its significance in the study of «the good, the true, and the beautiful» as found in Immanuel Kant and other Enlightenment philosophers and religious thinkers. These discussions were undertaken by Kant, particularly in the context of his Critique of Practical Reason.

Rawls[edit]

John Rawls’s book A Theory of Justice prioritized social arrangements and goods, based on their contribution to justice. Rawls defined justice as fairness, especially in distributing social goods, defined fairness in terms of procedures, and attempted to prove that just institutions and lives are good, if every rational individual’s goods are considered fairly. Rawls’s crucial invention was the original position, a procedure in which one tries to make objective moral decisions by refusing to let personal facts about oneself enter one’s moral calculations.

Opposition to evil[edit]

In religion, ethics, and philosophy, «good and evil» is a very common dichotomy. In cultures with Manichaean and Abrahamic religious influence, evil is usually perceived as the antagonistic opposite of good. Good is that which should prevail and evil should be defeated.^[10]

As a religious concept, basic ideas of a dichotomy between good and evil has developed in western cultures so that today:

Good is a broad concept, but it typically deals with an association with life, charity, continuity, happiness, love, and justice
Evil typically is associated with conscious and deliberate wrongdoing, discrimination designed to harm others, humiliation of people designed to diminish their psychological needs and dignity, destructiveness, and acts of unnecessary and/or indiscriminate violence ^[11]
the dilemma of the human condition and their capacity to perform both good and evil activities ^[12]

In Buddhism[edit]

In cultures with Buddhist spiritual influence, this antagonistic duality itself must be overcome through achieving Śūnyatā, or emptiness. This is the recognition of good and evil not being unrelated, but two parts of a greater whole; unity, oneness, a Monism.^[10]

In the field of biology[edit]

Morality is regarded by some biologists (notably Edward O. Wilson, Jeremy Griffith, David Sloan Wilson, and Frans de Waal) as an important question to be addressed by the field of biology.^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]

References[edit]

^ Donald Brown (1991) Human Universals. Philadelphia, Temple University Press (online summary).
^ Plato (1992). Republic. Translated by C.D.C. Reeve (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publ. Co. ISBN 978-0-87220-136-1.
^ Fine, Gail (2003). Plato on Knowledge and Forms. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 350. ISBN 0-19-924559-2.
^ Charles H. Kahn, Democritus and the Origins of Moral Psychology, The American Journal of Philology (1985)
^ Boyce 1979, pp. 6–12
^ John Hinnel (1997). The Penguin Dictionary of Religion. Penguin Books UK.
^ Churton, Tobias (2005). Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times. Inner Traditions – Bear & Company. ISBN 978-159477-035-7.
^ A. Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel (1980) p. 108
^ Farley, E (1990). Good and Evil: Interpreting a Human Condition. Fortress Press / Vanderbilt University. ISBN 978-0800624477.
^ ^a ^b Paul O. Ingram, Frederick John Streng. Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Mutual Renewal and Transformation. University of Hawaii Press, 1986. P. 148-149.
^ Ervin Staub. Overcoming evil: genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism. New York, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, Pp. 32.
^ Griffith, Jeremy (2011). The Human Condition. The Book of Real Answers to Everything!. ISBN 9781741290073.
^ Wilson, Edward Osborne (2012). The Social Conquest of Earth. ISBN 9780871404138.
^ Griffith, Jeremy (2011). Good vs Evil. The Book of Real Answers to Everything!. ISBN 9781741290073.
^ Wilson, Edward Osborne (2007). Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives. ISBN 9780385340922.
^ de Waal, Frans (2012). Moral behavior in animals. Archived from the original on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-11-20.

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Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: go͝od, IPA^(key): /ɡʊd/
(General American, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɡʊd/, [ɡʊ̈d], [ɡɪ̈d]
(AAVE) enPR: go͝o(d), IPA^(key): /ɡʊ(d)/
Rhymes: -ʊd

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English good, from Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Cognate with Russian го́дный (gódnyj, “fit, well-suited, good for; (coll.) good”), год (god), «year», via «suitable time». Not related to the word god.

Alternative forms[edit]

g’d (poetic contraction)
goode (obsolete)

Adjective[edit]

good (comparative better, superlative best)

(of people)
1. Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
  
  good intentions
  - 1460-1500, The Towneley Playsː
    
    It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this worthly wone.
  - 1500?, Evil Tonguesː
    
    If any man would begin his sins to reny, or any good people that frae vice deed rest ain. What so ever he were that to virtue would apply, But an ill tongue will all overthrow again.
  - 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 6, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
    
    When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
2. Competent or talented.
  
  a good swimmer
  - 1704, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached on Several Occasions, On the nature and measure of conscience:
    
    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
  - 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
    
    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.
  - 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
    
    And Marsha says I am a good cook!
3. Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
  
  Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I’m good for it.
4. Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
  
  Be good while your mother and I are out.
  
  Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
5. (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
  
  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, with with) Accepting of, OK with
  
  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 high rank or birth.
  - 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1–2:
    
    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:
(of capabilities)
1. Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
  
  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.
  - 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
    
    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.
2. Effective.
  
  a good worker
  - 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
    
    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.
3. (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
  
  in good sooth
  - c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
    
    Love no man in good earnest.
(properties and qualities)
1. (of food)
  1. Having a particularly pleasant taste.
    
    The food was very good.
    - c. 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin, ed., Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: N. Trübner & Co. for the Early English Text Society, volume I, OCLC 374760, page 11:
      
      Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke […] caste þher-to Safroun an Salt […]
    - 1962 (quoting 1381 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
      
      dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. […] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes page 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons […] Nym wyn […] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
  2. Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
    
    Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
2. Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
  
  The bread is still good.
3. Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
  
  This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
4. True, valid, of explanatory strength.
  
  This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
5. Healthful.
  
  Exercise and a varied diet are good for you.
6. Pleasant; enjoyable.
  
  We had a good time.
7. Favourable.
  
  a good omen; good weather
8. Unblemished; honourable.
  
  a person’s good name
9. Beneficial; worthwhile.
  
  a good job
  - 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    
    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 had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
10. Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
  - c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
    
    My reasons are both good and weighty.
  - 1966, K. Rothfels; Margaret Freeman, “The salivary gland chromosomes of three North American species of Twinnia (Diptera: Simuliidae)”, in Canadian Journal of Zoology, volume 44, number 5, →DOI:
    
    Twinnia biclavata differs from T. nova by inversion IS-1 and a nucleolar shift. Both are good species.
(colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.

The soup is good and hot.
(colloquial) Ready

I’m good when you are.
Holy (especially when capitalized) .
(of quantities)
1. Reasonable in amount.
  
  all in good time
2. Large in amount or size.
  
  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.
  - The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them, […].
3. Full; entire; at least as much as.
  
  This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb. The car was a good ten miles away.
  - 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
    
    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.

Usage notes[edit]

The comparative gooder and superlative goodest are nonstandard.
In informal (often jocular) contexts, best may be inflected further and given the comparative bester and the superlative bestest; these forms are also nonstandard.

Synonyms[edit]

(having positive attributes): not bad, all right, satisfactory, decent, see also Thesaurus:good
(healthful): well
(competent or talented): accomplished
(acting in the interest of good; ethical): See Thesaurus:goodness

Antonyms[edit]

(having positive attributes): bad, poor
(ethical): bad, evil

Derived terms[edit]

a bad tree does not yield good apples
a change is as good as a rest
a good beginning makes a good ending
a good deal
a good deed is its own reward
a good few
a good look
a good many
a miss is as good as a mile
a nod is as good as a wink
a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat
all good
all good in the hood
all good things come to an end
all good things must come to an end
all in good time
all publicity is good publicity
all-good
anti-good
any press is good press
as good as
as good as it gets
as good as new
bad money drives out good
baked good
be good for
better is the enemy of good
club good
come from a good place
come good
common good
complementary good
consumer good
demerit good
digital good
do good
do more harm than good
do someone’s heart good
do well by doing good
dogoodery
double-plus-good
double-plus-good
durable good
enough is as good as a feast
every good boy deserves fudge
fake good
fat lot of good
feel-good
feel-good factor
feelgoodery
fight the good fight
finger-lickin’ good
finished good
for good
for good and all
for good measure
for good or ill
for one’s own good
for the love of all that is good
from good hands
get out while the getting’s good
Giffen good
give a good account of oneself
give as good as one gets
go gentle into that good night
Good
good afternoon
good and
good and proper
good as gold
good as new
good as one’s word
good as wheat in the bin
good bet
good bishop
good black don’t crack
good boi
good book
good books
good breath
good bye
good cess
good cop bad cop
good day
good delivery
good doctor
good drunk
good egg
good ending
good enough
good enough for government work
good enough for jazz
good enough to eat
good evening
good faith
good fences make good neighbors
good fences make good neighbours
good folk
good for a laugh
good for nothing
good for someone
good form
good fortune
Good Friday
good game
good God
good Goddess
good going
good golly
good graces
good gracious
good gravy
good grief
good guy
good head on one’s shoulders
good heavens
good heav’ns
good house
good humor
good humour
good job
good lack
good language
good law
good leg
good length
good lick
good life
good liking
good looker
good looking
good looks
good Lord
good luck
good manners
good money
good morning
good morrow
good name
good nature
good news
good night
good night’s sleep
good now
good offices
good oil
good ol’
good ol’ boy
good old
good old boy
good old boy network
good old days
good ole
good ole boy
good on someone
good one
good people
good press
good question
good riddance
good riddance to bad rubbish
Good Samaritan
good sense
good shit
good show
good sort
good speed
good spirits
good sport
good standing
good thing
good things come in small packages
good things come in threes
good things come to those who wait
good thinking
good time
good time Charley
good time Charlie
good time girl
good times
good to go
good trouble
good try
good turn
good value
good voice to beg bacon
good will
good willer
good wine needs no bush
good word
good work
good works
good-bad
good-brother
good-by
good-bye
good-byer
good-den
good-fellowship
good-for-nothing
good-good
good-hearted
good-heartedly
good-heartedness
good-humored
good-humoredly
good-humoredness
good-humoured
good-humouredly
good-humouredness
good-king-henry
good-looking
good-lookingness
good-minded
good-natured
good-naturedly
good-naturedness
good-neighborliness
good-neighbourliness
good-neighbourly
good-sized
good-tempered
good-temperedness
good-time
good-time Charley
good-time Charlie
good-time girl
good-timer
goodbye
gooden
goodie
goodish
goodly
goodman
goodness
goodsome
goodwife
goody
grave good
grave-good
greater good
have a good one
have a good time
have something on good authority
hold good
hunger is a good sauce
I’m good
in good conscience
in good hands
in good odor
in good odour
in good part
in good spirits
in good stead
in good time
inferior good
it’s all good
it’s an ill wind that blows no good
it’s an ill wind that blows no one any good
it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good
Joan’s as good as my lady in the dark
job’s a good ‘un
jolly good show
keep good hours
let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
let the good times roll
let the perfect be the enemy of the good
luxury good
make a good fist of
make good
make good on
make good time
make the perfect the enemy of the good
merit good
no good
no good deed ever goes unpunished
no good deed goes unpunished
no news is good news
no-good
no-good ass
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
normal good
on a good wicket
on good terms
on someone’s good side
one good turn deserves another
only the good die young
pass a good time
perfect is the enemy of good
perfect is the enemy of good enough
perfection is the enemy of good
positional good
private good
producer good
producer’s good
public good
put in a good word
put to good use
quite good
romping good
‘sall good
scrape-good
seem like a good idea at the time
so far so good
something good
stand in good stead
stroy-good
stry-good
substitute good
superior good
talk a good game
that’s a good one
the best defense is a good offense
the best is the enemy of the good
the better is the enemy of the good
the fox may grow grey but never good
the good die young
the good doctor
the great and the good
the perfect is the enemy of the good
the road to hell is paved with good intentions
there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle
throw good money after bad
to the good
today is a good day to die
too good for this world
too good to be true
too good to last
too much of a good thing
turn to good account
twelve good men and true
uber-good
ungood
up to no good
Veblen good
very good
walk good
waste good
waste-good
well and good
what good is
what’s good
what’s good for the goose is good for the gander
what’s the good of
will the good of another
with good grace
with good reason
you can’t keep a good man down
you have to be good to be lucky
your good name
your good self
your guess is as good as mine
you’re good
you’re only as good as your last shift

Translations[edit]

acting in the interest of good; ethical good intentions

Adyghe: шӏу (šʷʼu)
Afrikaans: goed (af)
Albanian: mirë (sq)
Alviri-Vidari: (Vidari) ودر‎ (vader)
Ambonese Malay: bai, ae
American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Amharic: ጥሩ (ṭəru)
Arabic: حَسَن‎ (ar) (ḥasan), جَيِّد‎ (jayyid), طَيِّب‎ (ṭayyib)

Egyptian Arabic: كويس‎ (kwayyes)

Moroccan Arabic: مزِيان‎ (mazyan), ملِيح‎ (mliḥ)

North Levantine Arabic: منيح‎ (mnīḥ)

South Levantine Arabic: طَيِّب‎ (tayyeb), كويس‎ (kwayyes), منيح‎ (mnīḥ)

Tunisian Arabic: باهي‎ (bāhi)
Aramaic: טבא‎
Argobba: ጥሩ (ṭeru)
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav), բարի (hy) (bari)
Aromanian: bun m, bunã f
Assamese: ভাল (bhal)
Asturian: bonu (ast)
Azerbaijani: yaxşı (az), xeyir (az), xoş (az)
Bashkir: яҡшы (yaqşı)
Belarusian: до́бры (be) (dóbry)
Bengali: ভাল (bn) (bhal), নেক (bn) (nek)
Bikol Central: marhay (bcl)
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r)
Burmese: ကောင်း (my) (kaung:)
Buryat: һайн (hajn)
Catalan: bo (ca), bon (ca)
Cebuano: maayo, maayohon
Chamicuro: pewa
Chechen: дика (dika)
Chickasaw: chokma
Chinese:

Dungan: хо (ho)

Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo), 良 (zh) (liáng)

Min Dong: 好 (ho)
Coptic: ⲁⲅⲁⲑⲟⲥ (agathos) (Sahidic, Bohairic)
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Dalmatian: bun m, buna f
Danish: god (da) m, godt (da) n
Dutch: goed (nl)
Eastern Bontoc: ammay
Egyptian: (mꜣꜥ)
Esperanto: bona (eo)
Estonian: hea (et)
Evenki: ая (aja)
Faliscan: dueno
Faroese: góður (fo)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
Franco-Provençal: bon
French: bon (fr) m, bonne (fr) f
Friulian: bon
Galician: boo m, boa f
Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
German: gut (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs), 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (þiuþeigs)
Greek: καλός (el) (kalós), αγαθός (el) (agathós)

Ancient: ἀγαθός (agathós), ἐσθλός (esthlós) (Epic)
Gujarati: સારું (sārũ)
Haitian Creole: bon
Hebrew: טוֹב‎ (he) (tov)
Higaonon: maayad
Hiligaynon: maayo
Hindi: अच्छा (hi) (acchā), भला (hi) (bhalā), उत्तम (hi) (uttam), नेक (hi) (nek), खूब (hi) (khūb), ख़ूब (xūb), नीति (hi) (nīti)
Hiri Motu: namo
Hungarian: jó (hu)
Icelandic: góður (is) m, góð f, gott n
Ido: benigna (io), bona (io)
Ilocano: naimbag
Indonesian: baik (id)
Ingrian: hyvä
Ingush: дика (dika)
Iranun: mapia
Irish: maith (ga)
Istro-Romanian: bur
Italian: buono (it)
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii), 善意の (ja) (ぜんいの, zen’i no)
Kabardian: фӏы (fʼə)
Kalmyk: сән (sän)
Kannada: ಉತ್ತಮ (kn) (uttama)
Kashubian: dobri
Kazakh: жақсы (kk) (jaqsy)
Khmer: ល្អ (km) (lʼɑɑ)
Khün: please add this translation if you can
Kikuyu: -ega
Korean: 좋다 (ko) (jota)
Kumyk: яхшы (yaxşı)
Kyrgyz: жакшы (ky) (jakşı)
Ladin: bon
Lao: ດີ (lo) (dī)
Latgalian: lobs m
Latin: bonus (la)
Latvian: labs (lv) m
Lithuanian: geras (lt)
Livonian: jõvā
Lombard: bón
Luxembourgish: gutt
Lü: ᦡᦲ (ḋii)
Macedonian: добар (dobar)
Maguindanao: mapia
Malay: baik (ms)
Malayalam: നല്ലത് (ml) (nallatŭ)
Maltese: tajjeb (mt)
Manchu: ᠰᠠᡳᠨ (sain)
Manggarai: di’a
Maori: pai (mi)
Maranao: mapia
Marathi: चांगला (cāṅglā), चांगली (cāṅglī), चांगले (cāṅgle), भला (bhalā), भली (bhalī), भले (bhale)
Mauritian Creole: bon
Mazanderani: خار‎ (xar)
Mbyá Guaraní: ha’eve, porã
Middle Persian: 𐭭𐭩𐭪‎ (nyk /nēk/)
Mongolian: сайн (mn) (sajn)
Motu: namo
Mòcheno: guat
Nanai: улэн
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
North Frisian: gödj
Northern Kankanay: gawis
Northern Thai: ᨯᩦ (di)
Norwegian: god (no), godt (no)
Occitan: bon (oc)
Old Church Slavonic: добръ (dobrŭ)
Old Frisian: gōd
Old Javanese: bĕcik
Old Norse: góðr
Old Turkic: 𐰓𐰏𐰇‎ (edgü)
Ossetian: хорз (xorz)
Papiamentu: bon
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Persian: خوب‎ (fa) (xub), نیک‎ (fa) (nik)
Pijin: gudfala
Plautdietsch: goot (nds)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Punjabi: ਚੰਗਾ (caṅgā)
Quechua: allin
Romagnol: bôn
Romanian: bun (ro) m, bună (ro) f
Romansch: bun
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij), до́брый (ru) (dóbryj)
Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu), सु- (su-)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: до̏бар

Roman: dȍbar (sh)
Shan: လီ (shn) (lǐi)
Sicilian: bonu (scn)
Sinhalese: හොඳ (hoⁿda)
Slovak: dobrý (sk)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Somali: wanaagsan
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb)
Southern Kalinga: mamfaru
Spanish: bueno (es)
Sundanese: hadé
Swahili: nzuri (sw), njema
Swedish: god (sv) c, gott (sv) n, bra (sv)
Sylheti: ꠜꠣꠟꠣ (bála)
Tagalog: mabuti, mabait
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: хуб (tg) (xub)
Talysh: (Asalemi) چاک‎ (câk)
Tamil: நன்மை (ta) (naṉmai)
Tarantino: bbuène
Tatar: яхшы (tt) (yaxşı)
Telugu: మంచి (te) (mañci), నీతి (te) (nīti)
Tetum: di’ak
Thai: ดี (th) (dii), ดี ๆ (dii dii)
Tibetan: བཟང (bzang)
Tillamook: də húcsənə
Tok Pisin: gutpela (tpi)
Turkish: iyi (tr)
Turkmen: gowy (tk), ýagşy
Tzotzil: lek
Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎁 (ṭb)
Ukrainian: до́брий (uk) (dóbryj), хоро́ший (xoróšyj), га́рний (uk) (hárnyj)
Urdu: اچھا‎ m (acchā), بهلا‎ m (bhalā)
Uyghur: ياخشى‎ (ug) (yaxshi)
Uzbek: yaxshi (uz)
Venetian: bon (vec)
Vietnamese: tốt (vi), hay (vi), tuyệt (vi)
Vilamovian: güt
Votic: üvä
Walloon: bon (wa)
Waray-Waray: maupay
Welsh: da (cy)
West Frisian: goed
Western Bukidnon Manobo: me’upiya
White Hmong: zoo
Yagnobi: хуб (xub)
Yakut: үчүгэй (ücügey)
Yiddish: גוט‎ (gut)
Zazaki: weş (diq)
Zealandic: goed
Zhuang: ndei

useful for a particular purpose

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Arabic: حَسَن‎ (ar) (ḥasan), جَيِّد‎ (jayyid)
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Aromanian: bun
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r), доброка́чествен (bg) (dobrokáčestven)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chamicuro: pewa
Cherokee: ᎣᏍᏓ (osda)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 好 (zh) (hǎo)
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da) m, godt (da) n
Dutch: goed (nl)
Extremaduran: güenu
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Friulian: bon
Galician: bo (gl) m
Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
German: gut (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs), 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (þiuþeigs)
Greek: καλός (el) (kalós)

Ancient: ἀγαθός (agathós), ἐσθλός (esthlós) (Epic)
Haitian Creole: bon
Hebrew: טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche)
Ido: bona (io)
Indonesian: bagus (id)
Irish: maith (ga)
Istro-Romanian: bbur
Italian: buono (it) m
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii)
Khmer: គ្រប់គ្រាន់ (krup kroan)
Korean: 좋은 (ko) (jo’eun)
Latvian: labs (lv) m
Luxembourgish: gutt
Middle Korean: 됴〯ᄒᆞᆫ〮 (tyǒhón)
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Ngazidja Comorian: -ema
Northern Sami: buorrẹ
Norwegian: god (no), godt (no)
Ojibwe: mino-
Old Church Slavonic: добръ (dobrŭ)
Ossetian: хорз (xorz)
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Persian: خوب‎ (fa) (xub)
Pite Sami: buorre
Plautdietsch: goot (nds)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Quechua: alli, allin
Rapa Nui: riva
Romanian: bun (ro)
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij), неплохо́й (ru) (neploxój)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: до̏бар

Roman: dȍbar (sh)
Sinhalese: හොඳ (hoⁿda)
Skolt Sami: šiõǥǥ
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)
Sylheti: ꠜꠣꠟꠣ (bála)
Tamil: நல்ல (ta) (nalla)
Telugu: మంచిది (te) (mañcidi)
Thai: (informal) ดูดี (doo dee), (formal) สวยงาม (th) (sŭay ngaam)
Tocharian B: kartse
Tok Pisin: gutpela (tpi)
Tongan: lelei
Tuvaluan: lelei, llei
Ukrainian: добрий (uk) (dobryj), хороший (xorošyj)
Venetian: bon (vec)
Vietnamese: tốt (vi)
Vilamovian: güt
Welsh: da (cy)
Yakut: үчүгэй (ücügey)

of food, edible; not stale or rotten

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bengali: তাজা (bn) (taja)
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r), го́ден (bg) (góden)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da) m, godt (da) n
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
Galician: bo (gl) m
Georgian: კარგი (ka) (ḳargi)
German: gut (de)
Hebrew: אכיל‎ (he), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: ताज़ा (tāzā), ताजा (hi) (tājā)
Ido: bona (io), manjebla (io)
Italian: buono (it), mangiabile (it)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 大丈夫な (ja) (だいじょうぶな, daijōbuna)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m
Luxembourgish: gutt
Norwegian: god (no), godt (no)
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Plautdietsch: goot (nds)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: dobro (sh), valjano (sh), dobar (sh) m
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry
Spanish: bueno (es)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)
Telugu: తాజా (te) (tājā)
Welsh: blasus (cy)

of food, having a particularly pleasant taste

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Breton: mat (br)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 好吃 (zh) (hǎochī)
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da) m, godt (da) n
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
German: lecker (de), gut (de)
Hebrew: טעים‎ (ta’ím), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: पसंद (hi) (pasand)
Ido: bona (io), saporoza (io)
Italian: buono (it) m
Japanese: 美味しい (ja) (oishii), 美味い (ja) (umai)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: gards m
Luxembourgish: gutt
Norwegian: god (no), godt (no)
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Quechua: sumaq (qu)
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: ukusno (sh), dobro (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: god (sv) c, gott (sv) n
Telugu: పసందు (te) (pasandu)
Ukrainian: до́брий (uk) (dóbryj)
Vietnamese: ngon (vi)
Welsh: da (cy)

healthful

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bengali: স্বাস্থ্যকর (śastthokor)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: sund (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi), terveellinen (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de), gesund (de)
Hebrew: בריא‎ (he) (barí), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche)
Ido: bona (io), salubra (io)
Italian: salutare (it)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m, vērtīgs m, veselīgs m
Luxembourgish: gutt, gesond
Mazanderani: خار‎ (xar)
Norwegian: sunn (no)
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt)
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: dobro (sh), zdravo (sh), zdrav (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv), nyttig (sv)
Telugu: ఆరోగ్యకరమైన (te) (ārōgyakaramaina)
Welsh: iachus (cy)

pleasant; enjoyable

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bulgarian: ху́бав (bg) (húbav)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da), fin
Dutch: goed (nl)
Egyptian: (nfr)
Esperanto: bona (eo)
Finnish: mukava (fi), hauska (fi), kiva (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de), schön (de), angenehm (de)
Gothic: 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (gōþs)
Greek: καλός (el) (kalós)
Hebrew: מהנה‎ (mehané), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche)
Ido: bona (io), benigna (io), agreabla (io)
Italian: buono (it) m
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m, patīkams m
Lithuanian: geras (lt) m
Mòcheno: guat
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Norwegian: god (no)
Ojibwe: mino-
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: godno (sh), ugodno (sh), čedno (sh), dobro (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Somali: wacan
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Sundanese: saé (su)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)
Telugu: ఉత్సోహకరము (utsōhakaramu)
Tibetan: ཡག་པོ (yag po)
Turkish: iyi (tr)
Welsh: da (cy)

of people, competent or talented

Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: 嫻熟／娴熟 (zh) (xiánshú)
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da), dygtig (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de)
Hebrew: טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche)
Ido: bona (io), kompetenta (io)
Italian: bravo (it)
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii), 上手な (ja) (じょうずな, jōzu-na), 旨い (ja) (うまい, umai)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m
Norwegian: god (no), flink (no)
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij), уме́лый (ru) (umélyj), иску́сный (ru) (iskúsnyj), (agile) ло́вкий (ru) (lóvkij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: spretan (sh) m, spretna f, blagotvorna (sh) f, blagotvoran (sh) m, sposoban (sh) m, sposobna f, dobar (sh)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Sundanese: hadé
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)
Tagalog: magaling
Telugu: చురుకుతనము (curukutanamu)
Vietnamese: giỏi (vi), khá (vi)
Welsh: da (cy)

effective

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bengali: কার্যকর (karjokor)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de), effektiv (de)
Hebrew: יעיל‎ (he), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: शक्तिवंत (śaktivant), कर्माकारी (hi) (karmākārī)
Ido: bona (io), efektiva (io), efektema
Italian: ottimo (it), bravo (it)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m, efektīvs m
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: dobro (sh), dobar (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv), god (sv)
Tagalog: may bisa, magaling
Telugu: శక్తివంతము (te) (śaktivantamu)
Tok Pisin: gutpela (tpi)
Vietnamese: khá (vi)
Welsh: da (cy)

favourable

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav), բարի (hy) (bari)
Bulgarian: добъ́р (bg) (dobǎ́r)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de)
Hebrew: טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche), अभिमान (hi) (abhimān)
Ido: bona (io)
Italian: favorevole (it)
Japanese: 良い (ja) (よい, yoi), いい (ja) (ii)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: bonus (la)
Latvian: labs (lv) m, labvēlīgs (lv) m
Mòcheno: guat
Navajo: yáʼátʼééh
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij), до́брый (ru) (dóbryj) (of an omen)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: pouzdano (sh), dobar (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Sundanese: saé (su)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv), god (sv) c, gott (sv) n
Telugu: అభిమానము (te) (abhimānamu)
Welsh: da (cy)

beneficial; worthwhile

American Sign Language: OpenB@Chin-PalmBack-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Palm-PalmUp-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
Armenian: լավ (hy) (lav)
Bengali: উপকারি (upkari)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: dobrý (cs)
Danish: god (da)
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bon (fr) m
Galician: bo (gl) m
German: gut (de)
Hebrew: מוצלח‎ (he) (mutzlákh), טוב‎ (he) (tóv)
Hindi: उत्तम (hi) m (uttam), अच्छा (hi) m (acchā), अच्छी f (acchī), अच्छे pl (acche), उपकारी (hi) (upkārī), उपयोगकार (upyogkār)
Ido: bona (io)
Italian: buon (it)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: labs (lv) m, vērtīgs m
Pashto: ښه‎ (ps) (ẍë)
Polish: dobry (pl)
Portuguese: bom (pt) m, boa (pt) f
Russian: хоро́ший (ru) (xoróšij)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math
Serbo-Croatian: pouzdana (sh), korisna (sh), dobar (sh)
Slovene: dóber (sl)
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobry

Upper Sorbian: dobry (hsb) m
Spanish: bueno (es)
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv), god (sv)
Telugu: ఉపయోగకరము (te) (upayōgakaramu)
Welsh: da (cy)

Translations to be checked

Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} goed (af)
Albanian: ^{(please verify)} mirë (sq)
Arabic: ^{(please verify)} جَيِّد‎ (jayyid), ^{(please verify)} طَيِّب‎ (ṭayyib), ^{(please verify)} حَسَن‎ (ar) (ḥasan)
Avar: ^{(please verify)} лъикӏаб (lˢikʼab)
Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} yaxşı (az)
Bengali: ^{(please verify)} ভাল (bn) (bhal)
Cebuano: ^{(please verify)} maayo
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} bona (eo)
Fijian: ^{(please verify)} vinaka
Guaraní: ^{(please verify)} porã (gn)
Hittite: ^{(please verify)} aššu
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} baik (id), ^{(please verify)} bagus (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} bon
Inuktitut: ^{(please verify)} pitsiartok (pitsiartok)
Italian: ^{(please verify)} buono (it)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 좋은 (ko) (jo’eun)
Kurdish:

Northern Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} baş (ku), ^{(please verify)} qenc (ku), ^{(please verify)} çê (ku), ^{(please verify)} çak (ku), ^{(please verify)} rind (ku)
Lakota: ^{(please verify)} washte
Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} geras (lt)
Ojibwe: ^{(please verify)} mino-
Persian: ^{(please verify)} خوب‎ (fa) (xub)
Romani: ^{(please verify)} laćho
Romanian: ^{(please verify)} bun (ro)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} добро, ^{(please verify)} dobro (sh)
Sicilian: ^{(please verify)} bonu (scn)
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} dobrý (sk)
Swahili: ^{(please verify)} -zuri
Tamil: ^{(please verify)} நன்று (ta) (naṉṟu)
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మంచి (te) (mañci)(maMci)
Thai: ^{(please verify)} ดี (th) (dee)
Tupinambá: ^{(please verify)} katu
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yakşı (tr)
Urdu: ^{(please verify)} اچھا‎ m, ^{(please verify)} اچھی‎ f, ^{(please verify)} اجھے‎ pl
Uzbek: (yaxşi) ^{(please verify)} яхши (yaxshi)
Walloon: ^{(please verify)} bon (wa)
Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} גוט‎ (gut)

Interjection[edit]

good

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

Good! I can leave now.

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English goode (“good, well”, adverb), from the adjective. Compare Dutch goed (“good, well”, adverb), German gut (“good, well”, adverb), Danish godt (“good, well”, adverb), Swedish godt (“good, well”, adverb), all from the adjective.

Adverb[edit]

good (comparative better, superlative best)

(nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

The boy done good. (did well)
- 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.
- 1970, Troy Conway, The Cunning Linguist, London: Flamingo Books, page 66:
  
  I kept my eyes peeled for signs of pursuit. There was none, unless I was being fooled very good.
- 1972, Harry Chapin (lyrics and music), “A Better Place to Be”, in Sniper and Other Love Songs:
  
  She said, «I don’t want to bother you / Consider it’s understood / I know I’m not no beauty queen / But I sure can listen good.»
- 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.

Derived terms[edit]

but good
a good many

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English good, god, from Old English gōd (“a good thing, advantage, benefit, gift; good, goodness, welfare; virtue, ability, doughtiness; goods, property, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdą (“goods, belongings”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰodʰ- (“to unite, be associated, suit”). Compare German Gut (“item of merchandise; estate; property”).

Noun[edit]

good (countable and uncountable, plural goods)

(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
  
  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.
Antonyms: bad, evil
(countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.

Antonym: bad
(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.
- 1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers No. 64:
  
  […] 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.
(countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
  
  Thy lands and goods / Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate / Unto the state of Venice.

Derived terms[edit]

(item of merchandise): capital goods, consumer goods

Translations[edit]

the forces of good

Arabic: خَيْر‎ m (ḵayr), فَائِدَة‎ f (fāʔida)
Armenian: բարի (hy) (bari)
Belarusian: дабро́ n (dabró)
Bulgarian: добро (bg) n (dobro)
Catalan: bo (ca) m, bona (ca) f
Chinese:

Mandarin: 善 (zh) (shàn)
Choctaw: achukma
Czech: dobro (cs) n
Danish: godhed
Dutch: goed (nl), goede (nl)
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
French: bien (fr) m
German: das Gute (de) n
Greek: καλός (el) m (kalós)
Hebrew: טוב‎ (he) (tuv), טוב‎ (he) (tov), טובה‎ (he) (tovah)
Hindi: नेकी (hi) f (nekī), खैर (hi) f (khair), ख़ैर f (xair)
Hungarian: jó (hu)
Indonesian: baik (id)
Interlingua: ben (ia)
Italian: bene (it) m
Japanese: 善 (ja) (ぜん, zen)
Korean: 착함 (chakham)
Latin: bonum (la) n, bona (la) n pl
Latvian: labais m
Macedonian: добро n (dobro)
Manchu: (sain)
Mizo: ţha
Persian: خیر‎ (fa) (xeyr), نیکی‎ (fa) (niki)
Polish: dobro (pl) n, dobroć (pl) f (kindness)
Portuguese: bem (pt) m
Romanian: bine (ro), bun (ro) n
Russian: добро́ (ru) n (dobró)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: добро n

Roman: dobro (sh) n
Slovak: dobro (sk) n
Slovene: dôbro (sl) n
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: dobre n
Spanish: bien (es) m
Swahili: mara moja class 11/14
Swedish: godhet (sv) c
Thai: ความดี (th) (khwaam-dee), ธรรม (th) (thām-mā)
Turkish: iyi (tr)
Ugaritic: 𐎉𐎁 (ṭb)
Ukrainian: добро́ n (dobró)
Waray-Waray: kaupayan
Welsh: da (cy) m, daioni m
White Hmong: qhov zoo
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

good result

Bulgarian: полза (bg) f (polza), печалба (bg) f (pečalba)
Catalan: bo (ca)
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Choctaw: achukma
Czech: dobro (cs) n
Danish: gode
Finnish: hyvä (fi)
Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌸 n (þiuþ)
Greek: καλός (el) m (kalós)
Indonesian: bagus (id)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: vantagem (pt) f
Russian: толк (ru) m (tolk), прок (ru) m (prok)
Scots: guid
Scottish Gaelic: math m
Serbo-Croatian: valjan (sh), dobar (sh), pouzdan (sh)
Slovene: dôbro (sl) n
Spanish: please add this translation if you can
Swahili: mzuri (sw)
Swedish: bra (sv)

item of merchandise

Bulgarian: стока (bg) f pl (stoka)
Catalan: bé (ca) m
Chinese:

Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: goed (nl)
Finnish: tavara (fi), kauppatavara (fi)
French: bien (fr) m
German: Gut (de) n
Italian: bene (it) m
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Occitan: ben (oc) m
Portuguese: bem (pt) m
Spanish: bien (es) m
Welsh: nwydd (cy) m or f

Etymology 4[edit]

From Middle English goden, godien, from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”), from Proto-West Germanic *gōdōn (“to make better, improve”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz (“good, favourable”).

Verb[edit]

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded) (now chiefly dialectal)

(intransitive, now) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
(transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
(intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
(intransitive) To benefit; gain.
(transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
(transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
(reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.

Derived terms[edit]

gooding

Etymology 5[edit]

From English dialectal, from Middle English *goden, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish göda (“to fatten, fertilise, battle”), Danish gøde (“to fertilise, battle”), ultimately from the adjective. See above.

Verb[edit]

good (third-person singular simple present goods, present participle gooding, simple past and past participle gooded)

(transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) 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

Derived terms[edit]

goodening

Dutch Low Saxon[edit]

Adjective[edit]

good

good

Limburgish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

gott (Eupen)
joot (Krefeld)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch goet.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ʝoː˦d], [ʝoː˦t]

Adjective[edit]

good (comparative baeter, superlative bès, predicative superlative ‘t ‘t bès)

good

Inflection[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

god, gode, goed, gude

Etymology[edit]

From Old English gōd, from Proto-West Germanic *gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ɡoːd/
Rhymes: -oːd

Adjective[edit]

good (plural and weak singular gode, comparative bettre, superlative best)

good (of good quality or behaviour)
good (morally right or righteous)
- 14th c., Chaucer, General Prologue:
  
  and certeinly he was a good felawe
  
  and certainly he was a good fellow
advantageous, wealthy, profitable, useful
large; of a great size or quantity
Having a great degree or extent.

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goderhele
goodles
goodnesse

Descendants[edit]

English: good
Scots: guid
Yola: gooude, gude, gayde

References[edit]

“gọ̄d, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.

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Good does not come from God, but probably from Old English gōd, which is not the same. Before 900; Middle English (adj., adv., and noun); Old English gōd (adj.); cognate with Dutch goed, German gut, Old Norse gōthr, Gothic goths. The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in the 1380’s by Wycliffe from the Latin Vulgate, so you can draw your own conclusions. (et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona et divisit lucem ac tenebras: And God saw the light, that it was good: and divided the light from the darkness. Gen 1:4) The word God comes from the IndoEuropean root gal- «to call out.^[1] However, ProtoSemetic root found in Hebrew was there as such in Proto-Semitic «*ח ד ה , GH D H (accentuated vowel)». I don’t know if that is significant. Many religions have malevolent gods as well as good ones.

Good: from Old English gōd (with a long «o») «virtuous; desirable; valid; considerable,» probably originally «having the right or desirable quality,» from Proto-Germanic *gothaz (cognates: Old Norse goðr, Dutch goed, Old High German guot, German gut, Gothic goþs), originally «fit, adequate, belonging together,» from PIE root *ghedh- «to unite, be associated, suitable» (cognates: Old Church Slavonic godu «pleasing time,» Russian godnyi «fit, suitable,» Old English gædrian «to gather, to take up together»). As an expression of satisfaction, from early 15c.; of children, «well-behaved,» by 1690s. — Etymonline

The alleged Indo-European “root” of «good» is ghedh (to unite, join, fit). That which is united is «good». according to the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Gothic goþs meant «good, kind, beautiful», but gives no date.

If I had the OED, I might be able to do more.

_{[1] Wondering about Words: D’où viennent les mots anglais ? by Judith Andreyev}

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By Anatoly Liberman

A reader commented on my recent statement that Engl. good and god are unrelated and noted that this statement, in addition to being counterintuitive and undemonstrable, can even lead to schisms. Being a peaceful man, I am very much against all kinds of hostilities. Nor do I think that the history of words should interfere with faith to such an extent as to result in religious wars. But god and good are indeed unrelated, and I decided not to wait for the last Wednesday of November, when my monthly gleanings are due, and to say what is known about the origin of the words in question as early as possible (now people say only to not wait; for me such a split infinitive is worse than a schism).

Good has transparent etymology: gather and -gether are related to it. Their root means “fit, suitable.” This circumstance is borne out by numerous cognates in and outside Germanic. That is “good” which has been “fixed,” “assembled,” “put together” in a proper way. By contrast, the origin of god is debatable, which does not mean that we know nothing about its derivation. But before I come to the point, let me say that already long ago the proximity of good and god (in the other Germanic languages the two words also sound alike) gave rise to the conclusion that such a striking similarity in sound cannot be fortuitous. Here are three quotations dated 1589, 1606, and 1637 respectively. I have borrowed them from the book Folk-Etymology by the Reverend A. Smythe Palmer (1883). His etymologies should be treated with caution (though, naturally, he explains why good and god are unrelated), but his collection of examples is excellent. I have partly modernized the spelling of the originals.

“If that opinion were not [that is, if the opinion that god and good are related proved false], who would acknowledge any God? The very Etimologie of the name with us of the North partes of the world declaring plainely the nature of the attribute, which is all one as if we said good [bonus] or a giver of good things.” (1589) “God is that which sometimes Good we nam’d, / Before our English tongue was shorter fram’d.” (1606) “An indifferent man may judge that our name of the most divine power, God, is…derived from Good, the chiefe attribute of God.” (1637)

It could not escape the readers’ notice that I spelled god with low case g. I did it for a reason. The concept of God, of one Supreme Being, was alien to polytheistic religions. The further back we step into the past, the clearer it becomes that at one time people believed in multitudes of beings controlling our fate. Those invisible spirits were revered, worshipped, or propitiated, if you will, to prevent them from making humans ill. Language has preserved multiple traces of that state of mind. Elves possessed arrows and caused back pain (lumbago): their victims were “elf-shot.” Dwarfs, if my etymology of the word dwarf is correct, made people dizzy (“*dwysig”; the asterisk means that such a form has not been attested; the Old English word was dysig, with *w lost before long y), while trolls seem to have made the inhabitants of the earth “droll” (that is, ridiculous, behaving like buffoons, crazy). The situation with the gods (in the plural!) is especially clear. The Greek for “god” is theos. We find the same root in enthusiastic, or “possessed by a god,” which could mean “deranged” or “divinely inspired.” (Engl. enthusiastic is from French; Greek is its ultimate source.) The Germanic gods made one “giddy” (Old Engl. *gydig—a close parallel to enthusiastic). One can see that the spirits above were not thought of as good. The contrary is true.

With the advent of Christianity, dwarfs, trolls, elves, and the pagan gods, along with witches, giants, revenants, and the rest survived in folktales and superstitions. Even before that they descended from their heights and became anthropomorphic. Originally the singular form god did not exist in the Old Germanic languages; only the plural did. Three grammatical genders were distinguished: masculine, feminine, and neuter. The form of the word for “gods” was neuter plural, the most typical choice for designating such multitudes. Some other modern Indo-European words for “god” are unlike god: compare Greek theos, Latin deus, and Slavic bog. It may be that god does not even have a Germanic etymology. Perhaps the early Germanic-speakers borrowed it from the indigenous population of the lands on which we find them in the historical period. However, since in this case the pre-Indo-European substrate that could have lent god to Germanic is beyond reconstruction (substrate being a technical term for a language submerged in the language of later settlers), reference to it by a language historian is tantamount to an admission of final defeat. Hence the many attempts to find an Indo-European cognate of god. Any “thick” dictionary will inform us that god can be compared with two Sanskrit words: one meaning “to invoke,” the other “to pour.” Today most etymologists prefer the second hypothesis and interpret “pour” as “libation” (in the process of sacrifice), but the idea of invocation also has learned supporters.

My opinion does not weigh more than either of those two, but I believe that both conjectures are wrong. The primitive “gods” may have been invoked or sacrificed to, but the main thing about them was that they were feared. That is why I share the idea of Karl Brugmann, a great German scholar, who was active in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. He also found only a Sanskrit word to guide him, namely the adjective ghoras “awful, frightening.” According to him, Greek theos had the same origin. If he had been right, the result would have been illuminating, but, as it turned out, theos is not related to the Sanskrit adjective, and Brugmann’s etymology lost interest in the eyes of his colleagues. Yet even though theos and god do not belong together, it does not follow that god and ghoras should be kept apart. I think they possibly are, but hardly anyone will side with me. Likewise, I am in the absolute minority in my conviction that Slavic bog “god” is related to such English words as bug, bogy(man), and their kin. The inherent weakness of the etymologies cited above—from “invoke,” “pour,” and “frightening”— is (apart from the uncertainty of our word’s Indo-European provenance) that a single putative cognate of the Germanic word turns up so far from Germanic, in the language of Ancient India. A search for a better solution continues. Not long ago god was represented as the sum of the particle g- “that one” and an old root meaning “upward.” There also are several older etymologies that have been rejected as untenable, because they are untenable. Of the four words—theos, deus, bog, and god—only deus poses no problems: it is related to Zeus’s name and refers to a bright sky; here we are dealing with a primitive sky god.

After the conversion to Christianity, a word for “God” became necessary, and it had to belong to the masculine gender. This is indeed what happened: the singular was abstracted from the plural, and the neuter yielded to the masculine. Whatever the etymology of god may be, god and good are not related. I should also say that reference to intuition, if intuition means an undisciplined emotion, should be avoided. Etymology is a study of word history and presupposes a professional look at the development of sounds, grammatical forms, and meaning in many languages. “Intuitively,” deus and theos are two variants of the same word, but they are not. The term folk etymology covers suggestions of the theos-deus and god-good type: the temptation to connect look-alikes is irrepressible, but, unless we choose to remain in pre-scientific etymology, it should be resisted. Although “scientific etymology” stumbles at every step, there is no need to make it limp even more by burdening it with naïve medieval hypotheses. I sincerely hope that no schism will be the result of this post.

Anatoly Liberman is the author of Word Origins…And How We Know Them as well as An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction. His column on word origins, The Oxford Etymologist, appears here, each Wednesday. Send your etymology question to [email protected]; he’ll do his best to avoid responding with “origin unknown.”

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GOOD

Old English gōd; related to Old Norse gōthr, Old High German guot good.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GOOD

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GOOD

Good can act as a noun, an adjective and an exclamation.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

Exclamation is an expression or voice that reflects an emotion or exaltation.

WHAT DOES GOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Good

Good may refer to: ▪ Good and evil, the distinction between positive and negative entities ▪ Good, objects produced for market ▪ Good ▪ Good ▪ Good, West Virginia, USA ▪ Form of the Good, Plato’s macrocosmic view of goodness in living Expressive works: ▪ Good ▪ Good, a 2008 film starring Viggo Mortensen ▪ Good ▪ Good ▪ Good, by Cecil Philip Taylor Companies: ▪ Good Entertainment ▪ GOOD Music, a record label ▪ Good Technology Music: ▪ «Good», a song by Better Than Ezra from Deluxe…

Definition of good in the English dictionary

The first definition of good in the dictionary is having admirable, pleasing, superior, or positive qualities; not negative, bad or mediocre. Other definition of good is morally excellent or admirable; virtuous; righteous. Good is also suitable or efficient for a purpose.

Synonyms and antonyms of good in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «GOOD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «good» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «good» into 25 languages

TRANSLATION OF GOOD

Find out the translation of good to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of good from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «good» in English.

Translator English — Chinese

好的

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English — Spanish

bueno

570 millions of speakers

English

good

510 millions of speakers

Translator English — Hindi

अच्छा

380 millions of speakers

Translator English — Arabic

جَيِّد

280 millions of speakers

Translator English — Russian

хороший

278 millions of speakers

Translator English — Portuguese

bom

270 millions of speakers

Translator English — Bengali

ভাল

260 millions of speakers

Translator English — French

bon

220 millions of speakers

Translator English — Malay

baik

190 millions of speakers

Translator English — German

gut

180 millions of speakers

Translator English — Japanese

良い

130 millions of speakers

Translator English — Korean

좋은

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Javanese

Apik

85 millions of speakers

Translator English — Vietnamese

tốt

80 millions of speakers

Translator English — Tamil

நல்ல

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Marathi

चांगले

75 millions of speakers

Translator English — Turkish

iyi

70 millions of speakers

Translator English — Italian

buono

65 millions of speakers

Translator English — Polish

dobry

50 millions of speakers

Translator English — Ukrainian

гарний

40 millions of speakers

Translator English — Romanian

bun

30 millions of speakers

Translator English — Greek

καλός

15 millions of speakers

Translator English — Afrikaans

goeie

14 millions of speakers

Translator English — Swedish

bra

10 millions of speakers

Translator English — Norwegian

bra

5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of good

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GOOD»

The term «good» is very widely used and occupies the 370 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.

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FREQUENCY

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GOOD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «good» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «good» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about good

10 QUOTES WITH «GOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word good.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It’s telling something in the story.

I always say you’ve only got one life to live, and you’re not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I just want to live each moment, but it’s kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it’s also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don’t ordinarily think about. I think it’s strange.

By and large my relations with the US were good.

Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.

At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours’ walk, come back in, and record. And then the sun came up. If I had done something good, then I’d be happy and go to sleep.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

I think there’s always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there’s a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.

You see, I’d not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I’d got over that by this time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOOD»

Discover the use of good in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to good and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Good Book: A Humanist Bible

A non-religious, humanist reference draws on secular literature and philosophy from both Western and Eastern traditions to consider such topics as the origins of the world, how to relate to others, and how to appreciate life.

JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

If you develop sites or applications for the Web, this book is an absolute must.

A Good Book, in Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry

This book is designed to introduce readers to the joys and challenges of theoretical thinking.

Alan Sears, James Cairns, 2010

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the …

This book argues that political Islam emerged as the result of a modern encounter with Western power, and that the terrorist movement at the center of Islamist politics is an even more recent phenomenon, one that followed America’s …

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.

Desire, Practical Reason, and the Good

The book brings together work on various issues related to this thesis both from contemporary and historical perspectives.

Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God

The author revisits the cast of characters of his well-known Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality in this lively and absorbing dialogue on good, evil, and the existence of God.

Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook: Feasting with Your Slow Cooker

Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook is a Good Books publication.

Dawn J. Ranck, Phyllis Pellman Good, 2001

A Clinician’s Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with …

This is a companion guide to Think Good Feel Good: A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for Children and Young People.

Good Morning: 365 Positive Ways to Start Your Day

Good Morning provides readers with a daily dose of inspiration to make every day matter.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term good is used in the context of the following news items.

Live Coverage | ‘A Good Result for Europe and for Germany’

Nonetheless, Mr. Fratzscher added, the outcome “is a good result for Europe and for Germany.” The German government, he said, “pushed through most of its … «New York Times, Jul 15»

Hacking Team boss: we sold to Ethiopia but ‘we’re the good guys’

Hacking Team founder speaks out about attacks that revealed company deals with dictatorships. Photograph: LJSphotography / Alamy/Alamy. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

George Osborne and Donald Trump are so good at whipping up hate

I now need a big, black, felt-tip pen beside me in the mornings when I’m reading my paper, so that I can quickly blot out any image of George … «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Doing Good: Local nonprofit trains teachers to help struggling readers

Who’s doing good?Each Tuesday, we write about charity events such as fun-runs, volunteer projects and other community gatherings that … «Atlanta Journal Constitution, Jul 15»

China’s equity bust is good news for global markets

This is to misunderstand China’s role in the world. Continued economic weakness is good news for global stocks just as Japan’s weakness was … «Financial Times, Jul 15»

UK’s Prince William says air ambulance job will keep him ‘a good guy’

I hope to still be a part of that … but equally do something that I think is incredibly important and that will prove me in good stead for the future.». «The Daily Star, Jul 15»

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Las Vegas Summer League Day 3

They rarely hesitated, passing up good shots for great ones, and wound up shooting a sizzling (for summer league) 46.9 percent from the field, … «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»

What Good Sales People Know About Personal Branding That …

We used to call it building a good reputation and being clear on the direction you wanted your career to go. Then the age of digital dawned and … «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

Dig In: Feed the World Cafe feeds you well while doing good for the …

Dig In: Feed the World Cafe. The restaurant makes a donation to combat community hunger for every meal sold at the restaurant. Desserts … «MLive.com, Jul 15»

Budget does HSBC less harm than good

For the bank itself, the Budget was, on balance, a good one, delivering a valuable tax concession — or at least the promise of one from 2021. «Financial Times, Jul 15»

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Synonyms and antonyms of good in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS OF «GOOD»

Translation of «good» into 25 languages

TRANSLATION OF GOOD

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