good
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
How often you will meet it
Rank 91 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 272,724 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.130% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 100 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified good news from the hospitala good report card
- having the normally expected amount also: full gives full measuregives good measure
- morally admirable
- deserving of esteem and respect also: estimable, honorable, respectable all respectable companies give guaranteesruined the family's good name
- promoting or enhancing well-being also: beneficial an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countriesthe beneficial effects of a temperate climate
- agreeable or pleasing we all had a good timegood manners
good in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I hardly ever do it, so I'm not a good judge.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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My wife is very good at it—much better, in fact, than I am.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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He thought to himself hotly that it was good she was dead rather than see him shamed.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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And when, after a good many childless years, she brought him a girl and boy, he became excessively fond of his children.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1