Good Will

Definition: Good Will

Good Will

Noun

1. A disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will: "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished".

2. (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets).

3. The friendly hope that something will succeed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Good Will

Benevolence

Verb: be benevolent; Adjective: have one's heart in the right place, bear good will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with, empathize with, feel for; fraternize; (be friendly).

Noun: benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy; unselfishness.

Friendship

Verb: be friendly; Adjective:, be friends; be acquainted with; Adjective: know; have the ear of; keep company with;(sociality); hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning to; bear good will; (benevolent); love; make much of; befriend; (aid); introduce to. set one's horses together; have the latchstring out; hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly; Adjective: make friends; with; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor, gain the friendship of.

Affection; (love); favoritism; good will; (benevolence).

Gratitude

Acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks; thankful good will.

Willingness

Adverb: willingly; Adjective: fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms; with good will, with right will; de bonne volonte, ex animo; con amore, heart in hand, nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a good grace.

Crosswords: Good Will

Good will towards men and women. (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

And now you will see that good will triumph because good is dumb. (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks, Ronny Graham, Thomas Meehan)

I want peace on earth and good will toward man. (Sneakers; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson, Lawrence Lasker, and Walter F. Parkes.)

Good Will to Men (1955)

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Books

• From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy; Second Edition (Health, Society, and Policy) (reference)

• Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Good Will Hunting (reference)

• Good Will Hunting - Collector's Edition (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Good Will Hunting: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• The Good Will Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A message of good will from one Nation to another. Credit: Small World.

Peace and good will -- Gen. R.E. Lee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And here we have the plain difference between the state of nature and the state of war, which however some men have confounded, are as far distant, as a state of peace, good will, mutual assistance and preservation, and a state of enmity, malice, violence and mutual destruction, are one from another. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Civil Liberties

Equatorial Guinea

Expatriates dependent on the good will of the Government do not voice complaints about the frequent government abuses against them. (references)

Economic History

Belgium

Good will and affection for Americans continues as a result of the U.S. role during and after the two World Wars. (references)

Burma

While both sides have held the substance of this dialogue in strictest confidence, there have been a number of good will gestures, including the release of some political prisoners and a halt to the vicious attacks on Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD by the government-owned press. (references)

Political Economy

Western Sahara

A group of 185 POW's was repatriated to Morocco in a humanitarian airlift conducted under ICRC auspices in November 1995. In April 1997, Polisario leaders offered to release 85 Moroccan POW's as a good will gesture during U.N. envoy Baker's first meetings in Tindouf, but Morocco and the Polisario could not agree on the conditions of their release. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "good will": nothing good will come of it ♦ thankful good will ♦ what good will that do?. Additional references.

Czech

z toho nic dobrého nepojde (nothing good will come of it), k èemu to bude dobře? (what good will that do?), jaký z toho bude užitek? (what good will that do?). (various references)

Finnish

hyvä tahto (good intention). (various references)

Greek 

φήμη και πελατεία (goodwill, intangible assets, intangibles). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

好感 (favourable impression, good feeling), 好意 (courtesy, favor), 善意 (favorable sense, good faith, good intentions), グアノシン三燐酸 (good, good design mark, good idea, good looks, Good luck, good timing, good-looking, goods, Goodyear, GTP, Guam, guanosine triphosphate, guava, Gucci, guppy, promotional items). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぜ�"い (favorable sense, good faith, good intentions, implication, object of an application), �"うか�" (around town, barter, bulky, clearing, corona, exchange, exchange of cordialities, exchange of courtesies, facing the winter, favourable impression, fine fellow, fraternization, future problems, future trouble, good feeling, high official, interchange, mutual sympathy, official residence, on the street, publication, rapport, reciprocity, steel pipe, substitution, the public, the world, voluminous), �"うい (act, celestial latitude, change of dress, conduct, courtesy, deed, dignity, ecliptic latitude, eminent, favor, high ranking, imperial throne, kindness, lady court attendant, school doctor, seasonal changing of clothes, second accession of the same emperor, second lunar month, siege), グッドウィル . (various references)

Pig Latin

oodgay illway

Romanian

bunãvoinţã (amiability, amicableness, benevolence, charity, clemency, condescension, friendliness, goodwill, grace, graciousness, humanity, kindness, patronage, readiness, stoop, willingness). (various references)

Russian 

добрая воля (free will, goodwill). (various references)

Swedish

välvilja (benevolence, benignity, good-will, grace, kindness), kundkrets (clientele, connections, custom, good-will, patronage). (various references)

benevolentia, gratia, voluntas, voluntate, voluntatem, voluntates, voluntati, voluntatibus, voluntatis. (various references)

grace. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goodwill.

-3 letters: igloo, logoi.

-4 letters: dill, diol, doll, gild, gill, glow, gold, good, gowd, idol, lido, logo, olio, wild, will, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: dig, dog, dol, dow, gid, god, goo, ill, lid, log, loo, low, oil, old, owl, wig, wog, woo.

+1 letter: goodwills.

+2 letters: goodwilled.