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Definition of Good
| a. | 1. | | | 1. | Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc. | | 2. | Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; - said of persons or actions. | | 3. | Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; - often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto. | | 4. | Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; - followed especially by for. | | 5. | Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; - followed especially by at. | | 6. | Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit. | | 7. | Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth. | | 8. | Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc. | | 9. | Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. | | 10. | Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. | | n. | 1. | That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; - opposed to evil. | | 2. | Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; - opposed to harm, etc. | | 3. | Wares; commodities; chattels; - formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. | | adv. | 1. | Well, - especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible. | | v. t. | 1. | To make good; to turn to good. | | 2. | To manure; to improve. |
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