• | 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. |
• | Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious;
religious; -- said of persons or actions. |
• | Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite;
propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward,
also formerly by unto. |
• | Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be
relied upon; -- followed especially by for. |
• | Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed
especially by at. |
• | 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. |
• | Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good
earnest; in good sooth. |
• | 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. |
• | Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. |
• | Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied;
as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. |
• | That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success,
welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind,
benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil. |
• | Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity;
advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc. |
• | 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. |
• | 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. |
• | To make good; to turn to good. |
• | To manure; to improve. |