The soul of writing is specificity, yet all too often, we lean on general-purpose words instead of choosing the most precise ones. Most of our daily communication probably depends on less than 1,000 words. Of course, that includes words such as you, I, is, are, of, and for, which are already the best words for the job. I admit that sometimes in conversation, I deliberately limit my vocabulary because I don’t want others to look at me quizzically: “Who does he think he is, anyway: one of the authors of a writing tips blog?” The result is vague, even boring, conversation, using words so general, they could fit almost everything in the world.
How was your trip? Fine.
How do you feel? Good.
Choosing other words is no improvement, if we always choose the same words. A world where everything is cool or awesome is not much more interesting than a world where everything is fine or good.
So let’s buck the trend. Here are 41 alternatives to good that can’t be used to describe everything in the world because they each have specific meanings, or at least, different connotations.
- breathtaking – amazing, surprising, astonishing, enough to make you gasp with pleasure, and almost enough to make you forget to breathe.
- choice – preferred, prized, specially selected. In New Zealand, the exclamation “Choice!” is used similarly to “Great!” in the United States.
- dazzling – amazing, splendid, brilliant, shining so bright that it’s hard to see it.
- delectable – highly delicious, usually describing food, from the Latin for “delight.”
- delightful – causing joy, delight or pleasure, producing positive emotion, with the same Latin root as “delectable.”
- deluxe – high quality, related to luxury, from the Latin for “excess.”
- enjoyable – pleasant, bringing pleasure and satisfaction – bringing joy.
- excellent – superior, best in its class, of the highest quality, making a person shout “Excelsior!”
- exceptional – uncommon, rare, and better for being so.
- exemplary – an example of high quality, a model for others.
- fine – delicate, exquisite, almost as good as it gets. Related to the French and Latin words for “finished” and “exact.” Overused until often it merely means “acceptable.”
- exquisite – exceptionally fine or rare, with the sense of extreme
- favorable – helpful, encouraging, positive, convenient, such as getting hoped-for results.
- first-rate – exceptionally good, in the highest class. Describing a British naval vessel with more than 100 guns.
- first-string – the starting players on a sports team; that is, the best of them. Many other expressions begin with the word first.
- five-star – from the hotel rating system in which a five-star hotel is among the world’s best.
- formidable – causing awe, respect, wonder or even fear, perhaps because it’s so large or strong.
- gilt-edged – high quality, from the practice of putting a thin layer of gold on the edges of a book.
- gratifying – pleasing, satisfying, making someone content.
- incredible – amazing, beyond belief, almost too good to be true.
- luxurious – fine or comfortable, such as an expensive hotel room. I use it to show gratitude for a gift that is too fancy for my tastes.
- magnificent – splendid, elegant, noble. From the Latin word for “great deeds.”
- opulent – showy, extravagant, magnificent, sumptuous – more than luxurious, with the sense of “more than you really need”
- pleasing – giving cheer, pleasure, or enjoyment – something that pleases you
- positive – certain, good, favorable. Currently used in expressions such as “positive energy” or “positive vibes.”
- precious – beloved, valuable, worthy, of high price. “Precious” writing is euphuistic: overly cute and takes itself too seriously.
- prime – first, as in first quality.
- rare – uncommon, scarce, and therefore valuable. The gravestone of an influential English playwright is inscribed with the (misspelled) tribute “O rare Ben Johnson”.
- satisfying – sufficient, pleasing, more than adequate.
- select – privileged, specially chosen, high-quality.
- shipshape – well-organized, fully prepared, meticulous, tidy. Before you embark on an ocean voyage, you want your ship to be in shape.
- sound – healthy, solid, secure, complete. If a floor is sound, you won’t fall through.
- sterling – of high, verifiable value, as in sterling silver, which is 92.5% pure silver. Originally referring to British coins, which had a star or a starling on them in the Middle Ages.
- striking – impressive, memorable, calling to mind the striking of a coin.
- sumptuous – costly, expensive, as in a meal with many courses of great variety. We’ve got a whole article about sumptuous.
- top-notch – belonging to the highest level, possibly from some 19th century game that used notches to keep score.
- subtle – clever and crafty, though that’s an older meaning. A subtle flavor is not overbearing, and the chef will be pleased if you tell him so.
- up to snuff – meeting the standard, adequate, sharp. Snuff is a more expensive powdered tobacco, which was sniffed by higher-class gentlemen as a stimulant in the 19th century.
- valuable – worthy of esteem, having high worth or value.
- welcome – anticipated, a pleasure to see, received with gladness, as in “welcome news.” From the Old English for “a wished-for guest.”
- well-made – built right, properly constructed, sound.
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Today’s (October 29) New York Times carries the article written by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen under the title “What’s luck go to do with it,” It deals with a nine-year research study of some of the most extreme business successes of modern times that they call «10Xers,» that they recently completed.
The article begins with the following line.
“Better to be lucky than good, the adage goes. And maybe that’s true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average. But what if you want to build or do something great? And what if you want to do so in today’s unstable and unpredictable world?”
I guess “Better to be lucky than good “means “to be gifted with good fortune is better than being simply good (at what remains as a question though),” but I’m not sure of its exact meaning.
Although the authors say it’s an adage that I understand should be well-established, popular form of expression, I don’t find this phrase in neither Cambridge nor Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Google Ngram either doesn’t register this phrase.
As a plausible origin of this expression, flightjournal.com says:
“By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver. «It’s better to be lucky than good,» says Lamar Gillett, the only P-35 pilot in. World War II to shoot down a Japanese Zero fighter. «I was lucky I was behind the Zero instead of in front of him. I was lucky when I landed back …”
What is the exact meaning of «It’s better to be lucky than good,»? What does «good» mean here? Is it really qualified as an adage as the authors claim it?
asked Oct 30, 2011 at 6:31
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Unlike most of the answerers so far, I have personally heard this phrase used many times in my life (although I have lived my whole life only 2 hours from NYC, so maybe it is a local thing). Anyway, the statement has always been used in my presence to mean ‘skill can only get you so far’ and follows the logic that you need a certain amount of luck to be REALLY successful.
A good place to look for this is pop music stars. From the perspective of technical skill/trained ability, many of them are amateurs at best, but they are still IMMENSELY popular. In many cases, their popularity is based mostly on looks and being in the right place at the right time. Meanwhile there are musicians who can perform the most difficult pieces ever written while wearing a blindfold, but no one will ever hear their names because they did not have the luck to be «discovered». It is better to be lucky than good.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 15:25
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I read it as a shorter (but considerably less well-known and less eloquent) way of expressing the sentiment of Ecclesiastes 9:11 The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong … but time and chance happeneth to them all.
In both cases (depending on whether you’re a glass half full or half empty type of person), you can interpret the «chance» element as referring to having good luck, or avoiding bad luck. A top international sportsman might need the former to become World Champion; a WW2 tail gunner needed the latter to stay alive.
As is so often the case with such dictums, there are others with pretty much the opposite meaning. I would contrast this one with Thomas Edison’s Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.
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answered Oct 30, 2011 at 14:14
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From the context, it sounds as if good has more to do with ability than morals here. Adage is, more or less, a synonym of proverb and proverbs are not usually mere quotations. The only proverb I can find like it is It is better to be born lucky than rich. It rather looks to me as if the writers have been careless both in their use of the quotation and of the term adage.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 7:24
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The Google search for «Better to be lucky than good» returns 408,000 results, while removing the quotes nets 121 million results. Anecdotally, I have heard this phrase at least once in my short life. These two points (Google results combined with my own experience) lead me to believe that it’s «popularity» is somewhat lower than «popular» and somewhat above «not at all popular.»
As for it’s meaning, it can be roughly interpreted as:
I would rather have many good things happen to me by no skill of my own than be very skilled at something and be responsible for my own good fortune, therefore making my successes and failures a direct result of my own actions.
One of the earliest mentions of this phrase that I could «reliably» find was Lefty Gomez who is purported to have often stated this phrase in or before 1943.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 7:50
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The way I heard it was «It’s smarter to be lucky than it’s lucky to be smart.» From a song in the musical Pippin.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 16:33
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I think it’s a stretch to call «better to be lucky than good» an adage, since it’s not that common itself.
The sentiment of the phrase is well known, but there are many variations.
Google Ngrams picks up «lucky than good» only as far back as 1927:
Or else it proves that the De Havilland firm are very lucky,- which is also a point in their favour, if it be true that it is better to be born lucky than good.
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Another way of phrasing it: «I’d rather be lucky than good» can be found in The New Yorker from 1947:
«The breaks,» George said. «I’d rather be lucky than good.»
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Here «the breaks» refer to the breaks people get into something, e.g. show business. Meaning that good fortune has put them where they want to be.
The generalised concept that it’s better to be lucky than [X] I have found at the end of the 18th century in this Google Ngram:
I think what I have long thought, that it is better to be lucky than wise.
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The phrase, as you say, means that having good luck when attempting something is better than being good at the thing you’re attempting (whether that is true is another matter). So good in this sense means good at something.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 10:29
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I have used that phrase in situations where things work out well due more to a fortunate turn of events rather than due to my own skill.
For example, I’m a programmer and we spend a lot of time testing the software that we write. Yet there are always more bugs to be discovered and fixed. When we stumble across a new but serious bug shortly before releasing a new version, it is almost always due to «luck» rather than «skill». Hence, I’d rather be lucky than good.
answered Oct 30, 2011 at 12:44
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I think jimreed (10/30/11) captures an important element of this usage, which is that when this phrase is directed at one’s own accomplishments, it’s intended to be self-effacing: «I pulled this off because I was lucky rather than because I am skilled, talented, wise, etc.» I sometimes hear (and use) this expression to mean «It’s better to be lucky than good, because if we’re depending on how good I am, we’re screwed.»
Of course, when this phrase is directed at someone else’s actions, it might intend (either playfully or derisively) to minimize that person’s contributions: «Don’t get full of yourself; you were just lucky.»
answered Aug 29, 2012 at 14:54
I’d look as «good» as a moral category, and imperative, as in, e.g. Be good!
The analogous equivalent here would be, Be lucky!
Of course, luck cannot be willed or controlled, but if a choice could be made, it would be better to be lucky than to be good. For, the good die young, while the lucky live long and happy lives.
Yes, I’ll take luck over good any day.
For, being good «can» result in being unlucky. But being lucky is always good.
answered Feb 5, 2012 at 10:11
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“I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?”
— Napoleon Bonaparte.
«I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it»
-Thomas Jefferson
This is a common theme throughout history. Lately it has been the subject of research. I quote:
Prof Richard Wiseman’s research scientifically explores why some people live such charmed lives, and aims to develop techniques that enable others to enhance their own good fortune. The main findings from the research have been published in his bestselling book The Luck Factor.
answered Jul 8, 2015 at 8:15
better than — перевод на русский
No, better than that.
Нет, лучше по-другому.
-Father knows it better than I do.
— Папа знает ее лучше.
I know your routine better than you do yourself.
Я знаю твои мысли лучше тебя самого.
— But they couldn’t be better than us.
— Но мы лучше.
Maybe this wood is better than this wood!
Но может быть, это лучше этого!
Показать ещё примеры для «лучше»…
Something you love better than me… though you may not know it.
То, что ты любишь больше меня хотя и не осознаёшь этого.
I know better than you.
— Я знаю больше тебя.
He’s batting. 342, can’t do any better than that.
Он в ударе. 342, больше никто не выбьет.
well I, I reckon this here suits me better than anything fancy.
Я думаю, что это мне подходит больше.
I understand these people better than you.
Я понимаю этих людей больше тебя.
Показать ещё примеры для «больше»…
Kiss me better than that.
Целуй получше.
— I can tell a better one than that. — You couldn’t.
— Могу рассказать и получше.
Can’t you do any better than that? That’s all you think about, Lazy Legs, hmm?
А можно получше?
Oh, you can do better than that.
Сделай что-нибудь получше.
You’d think she’d do better than this for her own niece.
Для племянницы она могла бы выбрать что-нибудь получше.
Показать ещё примеры для «получше»…
Sleep will do you more good than anything else.
— Сон — лучшее лекарство. Да, да, любимый.
Semi-final time was. 3 better than yours, Gary.
В полуфинале он показал лучшее время, чем ты, Гэри.
I’M AFRAID YOU’LL HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THAT.
Это лучшее, что вы можете сделать!
Come on, you could do better than that.
Ну же, вы способны на лучшее…
Better than anything we’ve got so far.
Это лучший из ныне найденных! Почти невредимый!
Показать ещё примеры для «лучшее»…
It’s better than that.
Это гораздо лучше!
You knew him better than I did.
Ты знал его гораздо лучше.
No, better than that: ’21 ‘.
Гораздо лучше, с доставкой на дом.
If I could make my people realize that things like this are better than all the guns in the world…
Если бы я могла заставить свой народ понять, что это гораздо лучше, чем всё оружие в мире…
— Oh, you can do better than that.
— Что ты, гораздо лучше.
Показать ещё примеры для «гораздо лучше»…
A Yankee farmer’s as good and maybe better than any Dutchman on the Hudson River.
Фермер янки ничуть не хуже какого-то голландца с Гудзона.
Let’s just be happy that they’re better than most.
Будем счастливы уже оттого, что они не хуже других.
But you have no guarantee that I won’t blackmail you… or, better than that, go to the police.
Но вы не можете гарантировать, что и я не буду вас шантажировать или, хуже того, не пойду в полицию.
I’m sure you already know even better than I do myself.
Вы, должно быть, знаете об этом не хуже меня.
They fight no better than your men did, Merikus.
Они дерутся не хуже твоих людей, Мерикус. Может, даже хуже.
Показать ещё примеры для «хуже»…
True, I’m a merchant, and you’re better than me.
Я торговец, хорошо, и ты намного лучше меня.
Better than fucking cakes any day, hmm?
Намного лучше, чем пиздить кексы, да?
And I’m a lot better than I was.
И мне уже намного лучше.
Oh, better than that!
Намного лучше!
— Because I know him too and probably a lot better than you.
— Потому что я тоже его знаю… -…и, возможно, намного лучше тебя.
Показать ещё примеры для «намного лучше»…
It seems to me you can do a little better than that. Maybe.
Мне кажется, вы могли бы ответить более развернуто.
Shortly before dawn… the Tiger Shark, running submerged at better than 30 knots… had left the sound behind… and was headed for open sea.
Перед самым рассветом атомная подлодка «Тигровая акула» погрузилась под воду, и со скоростью более 30 узлов, абсолютно бесшумно направилась в открытое море.
As you see, we’re coping. My three young engineers are better than the French.
Два-три молодых инженера, более способных, чем французы…
You’ll have to do better than that, Doctor.
Тебе придется быть более убедительным, чем он, Доктор.
All told, he blew town with better than $370,000 of Warden Norton’s money.
В общем, он покинул город… с более $370,000 долларов, ринадлежащих начальнику Нортону.
Показать ещё примеры для «более»…
I’ll do better than give you instructions.
Я дам тебе больше, чем просто инструкции.
That’d be much better than being blanked out forever.
Это ведь намного лучше, чем просто выключиться навсегда.
War doesn’t mean shooting better than the others.
Война — ето ведь не просто, кто кого перестреляет.
And now look at me, just a little better than wicked.
А теперь посмотри на меня. Я просто воплощение порока.
R2-D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer.
R2-D2, ты же не так прост, чтобы доверять незнакомому компьютеру.
Показать ещё примеры для «чем просто»…
You got to do better than that!
Тебе придется придумать что-нибудь получше этого!
If you can’t do any better than that, kid, you’re going to lose.
Если ты не можешь придумать что-нибудь получше… ты проиграешь!
I know better than that.
Придумай что-нибудь получше.
Oh, you can do better than that, Jenny.
Ох, могла бы и получше придумать, Дженни.
You can do better than that, Doctor.
Мог бы придумать что-нибудь получше, Доктор.
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Cool
In addition to being used to describe temperature, “cool” also means very good or fashionable. For example, you might describe stylish clothes as “cool” or a performance by a musician that you really enjoy.
It can also be used to express acceptance when someone makes a suggestion. For example, if someone suggests meeting to go to a movie, you could say “Cool! I’ll see you at 6 p.m.” Like “awesome,” “cool” is a popular expression for younger people, and you shouldn’t use it in more formal conversations.
Excellent
“Excellent” is used to describe something very good or of high quality. Almost anything you can describe as “good,” you can also describe as excellent. It can be used when speaking to friends, family, or coworkers when you want to emphasize that something is not just ok or good, but very good.
If someone asks “how are you,” you can respond “excellent.” Or, similar to this restaurant review, you could say “Have you been to the new restaurant downtown? The food there is excellent.”
Wonderful
“Wonderful” means great or very good. People can be wonderful, experiences can be wonderful and things can be wonderful. You can use this word in both formal and casual settings.
For example, you could say “The paintings at the art exhibition last night were wonderful,” or “I think you’ll like her. She’s a wonderful person.”
Perfect
Perfect describes something that is flawless or exactly matching the need in a particular situation.
If you have a very good day and everything happens exactly as you want it to, you could describe it as a “perfect day.” A hotel could be “perfect for families” or an actor in a movie could be “perfect for the role.” If someone suggests an idea that you like, you can say “That’s perfect” or “That sounds perfect.”
Fantastic
The word “fantastic” is used to describe something very good or exciting. It can be used in both formal and informal situations. It’s a very enthusiastic, positive word, so you should say it with some emphasis or exclamation.
For example, if someone asks you about your trip to Thailand, you could say “It was fantastic!”
Exceptional
“Exceptional” means that someone or something is above average. This adjective has a slightly more formal tone, and it’s a good word to use when you want to sound a little more sophisticated.
For example, you could say “I think Italy is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The scenery is exceptional.”
Terrific
“Terrific” means very good or great. You can use it the same way you use “good.” It’s another very enthusiastic adjective, so only use it if you’re describing something you really like a lot.
You could describe someone’s idea or performance as “terrific,” such as “I’m very happy with the results. She did a terrific job on this project.”
Keep in mind that “terrific” can also be used to describe something very bad depending on the noun it’s paired with. For example, you could also talk about a “terrific storm” or a “terrific explosion.”
Outstanding
“Outstanding” describes something that “stands out” or is noticeably better than the alternatives. An “outstanding” book is better than all the other books you’ve read recently, or an “outstanding” hotel is one of the nicest hotels you’ve ever stayed in. This adjective is appropriate to use in casual or formal conversations.
Note that “outstanding” can also mean “unpaid” depending on the situation. So if you have an “outstanding” bill, it means that you have a bill that needs to be paid, not a “very good” bill.
How do you know which meaning is being used? Context is super important for this. That’s why when you’re learning new words, you should try to learn them in sentences. You can also use immersion programs to see words in different scenarios. On FluentU, for example, you can search for specific words in the program’s library of authentic videos to see how they’re used by native English speakers.
Pleasant
“Pleasant” describes something that is enjoyable or likable. It can be used to describe people, places, or experiences. “Pleasant” is a little less strong than words like “outstanding,” “terrific” or “fantastic” and it can be a good word to use if something was nice, yet not the absolute best thing imaginable.
For example, you could say “We had a nice time at dinner. It was a very pleasant evening.”
Awesome
Technically, “awesome” describes something that inspires awe or wonder. Typically, however, “awesome” is used to describe people, experiences or places that are very good or impressive.
For example, you could say “I love your new watch. It looks awesome.” It’s an adjective that is particularly popular with younger people, and it’s not an expression that you would want to use in a formal or business situation.
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