Good And

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Good And

Definition: Good And

Good And

Adverb

1. (informal) completely or thoroughly; "when I'm good and ready".

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

 

Synonyms within Context: Good And

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completeness

Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Good And

English words defined with "good and": Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, Ditheism, Doomsday, dualismedenFall of Man, for good, For good and all, forbidden fruitGarden of Edenidealisation, idealizationJekyll and Hyde, Judgement Day, Judgment DayLast Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgmentmediocre, morality, mutual oppositionOnerous causepolaritySworn brothersThread and thrumvaluableWhite witch, worthful. (references)
Specialty definitions using "good and": Adamites, Alfar, Apparel, AwakeBreadGood and AllHorselettuceManicheismPeasrichScandalTree of the knowledge of good and evilwarranty deed. (references)
Etymologies containing "good and": Bonnibel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Good And

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I mean, that just screws up my whole idea of good and evil and God. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Caroline, we've talked about this before, and I'll see a therapist when I'm good and ready (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro)

What if one of us has been good and one of us has been bad (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

A schmuck named Nietzsche once wrote: 'Anything that's done out of love is beyond good and evil (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

Good and evil can't exist without each other, blah blah blah (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Lyrics

YOU GOTTA BE GOOD, YOU GOTTA BE GOOD AND READY TO GO (I Know Where It's At; performing artist: All Saints)

And through the good and bad times (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

Living with good and bad (All Those Years Ago; performing artist: George Harrison)

The money's good and the work is okay (Peaceful World; performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp)

Through the years, through all the good and bad (Through The Years; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Clever

Be good and you will be lonely. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

Good and Guilty (1962)

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

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Commercial Usage: Good And

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Common Good and Christian Ethics (reference)

  • The Shore Beyond Good and Evil: A Report from Inside Burma's Opium Kingdom (reference)

  • The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money--Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times (reference)

  • People Styles at Work: Making Bad Relationships Good and Good Relationships Better (reference)

  • The Banality of Good and Evil: Moral Lessons from the Shoah and Jewish Tradition (Moral Traditions & Moral Arguments) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Photo Album: Good And

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Good and bad form illustrated. Credit: Library of Congress.

You may fire when I am damn good and ready, Gridley!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Good And

AuthorQuotation

Charles

Without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Euripides

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

Jean De La Fontaine

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ignorance of good and evil is the most upsetting fact of human life.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Seneca

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Good And

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And these two cases he instances in, differ little from those above mentioned, to be destructive to governments, only that he has omitted the principle from which his doctrine flows: and that is, the breach of trust, in not preserving the form of government agreed on, and in not intending the end of government itself, which is the public good and preservation of property. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Good And

TitleAuthorQuote

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Home, for good and all.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In the meantime, it seems as though we were neutral in the game which is being played between our good and our ill fortune

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He would reward the good and punish the wicked

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Meantime, but think how I may do thee good And be inheritor of thy desire

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Good And

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A tart lemon custard might taste good and will also provide needed protein and calories. (references)

Most cholesterol tests measure the level of total cholesterol in the blood and don't distinguish between good and bad cholesterol. (references)

Business

Industrial relations are good and the U.K. has a low strike record. (references)

The recommended payment method for imported good and services is an irrevocable Letter of Credit. (references)

Applications from Israel or Pakistan are considered good and inexpensive for Mexican firms to customize. (references)

Economic History

Mozambique

Relations between the United States and Mozambique are good and steadily improving. (references)

Slovak Rep

A good and common way to find a local representative is to advertise in a newspaper. (references)

Mauritius

The road network is good and a highway runs from the north to the south of the island. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

Rights-holders report that police cooperation is good and the frequency of raids is climbing. (references)

Bulgaria

U. S.- Bulgarian bilateral relations are very good and continue to improve steadily improving, reflecting a wide range of shared interests. (references)

INDIA

Trademark protection is considered good and was raised to international standards with the passage in December 1999 of a new Trademark Bill that codifies existing court decisions on the use and protection of foreign trademarks, including service marks. (references)

Travel

Italy

Medical services are good and hospitals com-pare with those in the United States. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

In Abidjan, residential housing is good and there is a varied selection of apartments, duplexes and single family homes available. (references)

Worker Rights

Bulgaria

Victims of trafficking range from those who were deceived into believing that they would have good and respectable employment, to those who expected to work as prostitutes but were unprepared for the degree of violence and exploitation to which they would be subjected. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

RICH, adj. Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the luckless. That is the view that prevails in the underworld, where the Brotherhood of Man finds its most logical development and candid advocacy. To denizens of the midworld the word means good and wise.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Good And

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Gary Condit

You know, there's good and bad about that watch box thing. I can't throw the trash away at my house anymore. I happen to do the dishes, but I can't throw the trash away.

Robert Atkins

Oh, have you got that wrong. If it tastes good, you can stay on it for life. Just pick a healthy food that tastes good and that's what Atkins does.

Rush Limbaugh

Fox News Poll Finds Good and Bad: There's a new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll on the economy and it shows just how bad things are out there, folks.

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

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Speeches: Good And

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809On my part, you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good and on all the information I possess which may enable you to discharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country.

James K. Polk

1845-1849Experience has taught us how unnecessary they are as auxiliaries of the public authorities--how impotent for good and how powerful for mischief.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961We sense with all our faculties that forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Last week the Senate lost a good and honest man, Lee Metcalf of Montana.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Good And

Expressions using "good and": beyond the good and the bad For good and all good and proper good and rich stock he got good and angry the good and the bad tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Good And

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

midnight in the garden of good and evil

130

good and evil

65

beyond good and evil

56

good and plenty

28

garden of good and evil

12

nietzsche beyond good and evil

10

the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

9

good and fruity

5

tree of good and evil

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Good And

Language Translations for "good and"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fis (clan, good and rich stock, kin, kinsman, name, nation, phratry, relative, rich lord family, stock, tribe). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

好壞 (good and bad; advantageous and disadvantageous), 善良 (good and honest, kind-hearted). (various references)

   

Czech

  

opravdu se rozzlobil (he got good and angry). (various references)

   

Danish

  

deres fuldmagter,fundet i god og behoerig form (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hun in goede en behoorlijke vorm bevonden volmachten (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hän ei voi erottaa hyvää pahasta (he cannot distinguish between good and evil). (various references)

   

French

  

leurs pleins pouvoirs,reconnus en bonne et due forme (found in good and due form). (various references)

   

German

  

tüchtig (able, proficient, brave, capable, strenuously), ihre als gut und gehoerig befundenen Vollmachten (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τα πληρεξούσια έγγραφά τους που ευρέθησαν εν τάξει (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

véglegesen (for good, for good and all, permanently), végleg elutasít (to refuse for good and all), végleg eltávozott (to be gone for good and all), végleg elment (to be gone for good and all), végleg (for good, for good and all), lehord vkit (to bawl sy out, to put sy in his place), jól megszid vkit (to dress sy down good and proper), jól (aright, well, nicely), egyszer s mindenkorra (first last and all the time, for good, for good and all, once for all), alaposan megszid vkit (to dress sy down good and proper), alaposan megdorgál vkit (to dress sy down good and proper), alaposan helybenhagyták őket (they got beaten proper), örökre elment (to be gone for good and all), a jók és a rosszak (the good and the bad). (various references)

   

Italian

  

i loro pieni poteri,riconosciuti in buona e debita forma (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

勧善懲悪 (morality play, rewarding good and punishing evil). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぎょくせきこんこう (a jumble of wheat and tares, good and bad in a hopeless jumble), ぜんび (completeness, consummation, perfection, the good and the beautiful), ぜんあく (good and evil), ぜんとあく (good and evil), せいだく (good and evil, purity and impurity), かんぜんちょうあく (a novel or drama with a rewarding-good-and-punishing-evil theme, moral purpose, morality play, rewarding good and punishing evil), こうざい (both good and bad, execution by hanging, hanging, merits and demerits, steel material), じゅんりょう (gentle, genuine, good and obedient, innocent, meek, net weight, pure, purity, simple and kind). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oodgay anday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

os seus plenos-poderes,reconhecidos em boa e devida forma (found in good and due form, their Full Powers), além do bem do mal (beyond the good and the bad). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pentru totdeauna (for ever, for ever and a day, for ever and ever, for good, for good and all, for keeps, forever, forevermore, outright), definitiv (clearly, conclusive, definitive, definitively, determinate, final, for good and all, indefeasible, last, peremptory, ultimate), cei buni şi cei rãi (the good and the bad). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sus plenos poderes reconocidos en buena y debida forma (found in good and due form, their Full Powers). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

temelli olarak (for good, for good and all, for keeps, permanently). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Good And

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 31, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEnergei gar tw andri agaqa panta ton bion
Latin405VulgateGimel reddet ei bonum et non malum omnibus diebus vitae suae
Middle English1395WyclifGimel. She shal yelde to hym good, and not euel, alle the dayes of hir lif.
Jacobean English1611King JamesShe will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Victorian English1833WebsterShe will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Basic English1964OgdenShe does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Good And

LanguageProverbs Chapter 31, Verse 12
CebuanoSiya nagabuhat kaniya sa maayo ug dili sa dautan Sa tibook nga mga adlaw sa iyang kinabuhi.
Chinese他 一 生 使 丈 夫 有 益 無 損 .
CroatianOna mu èini dobro, a ne zlo, u sve dane vijeka svojeg.
DanishHun gør ham godt og intet ondt alle sine Levedage.
DutchGimel. Zij doet hem goed en geen kwaad, al de dagen haars levens.
FinnishHän tekee miehellensä hyvää, ei pahaa, kaikkina elinpäivinänsä.
FrenchElle lui fait du bien, et non du mal, Tous les jours de sa vie.
GermanSie tut ihm Liebes und kein Leides ihr Leben lang.
Haitian CreoleMadanm lan p'ap janm aji mal ak mari l', l'ap pase tout lavi l' ap fè l' byen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariIa tak pernah berbuat jahat kepada suaminya; sepanjang umurnya ia berbuat baik kepadanya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaBahwa bininya berbuat baik akan dia, bukannya jahat, seumur hidupnya.
ItalianEssa gli dà felicità e non dispiacere per tutti i giorni della sua vita.
MaoriHe pai tana e mea ai ki a ia, kahore hoki he kino, i nga ra katoa e ora ai ia.
NorwegianHun gjør ham godt og intet ondt alle sitt livs dager.
PortugueseGuímel. Ela lhe faz bem, e não mal, todos os dias da sua vida.   
RumanianEa ki face bine, wi nu rqu, kn toate zilele vieyii sale.
RussianПОБ ЧПЪДБЕФ ЕНХ ДПВТПН, Б ОЕ ЪМПН, ЧП ЧУЕ ДОЙ ЦЙЪОЙ УЧПЕК.
SpanishLe recompensará con bien y no con mal, todos los días de su vida.
SwedishHon gör honom vad ljuvt är och icke vad lett är, i alla sina levnadsdagar.

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

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Anagrams: Good And

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-n-o-o"

-1 letter: ogdoad.

-2 letters: donga, gonad.

-3 letters: agon, dado, dago, dang, dodo, dona, dong, goad, good, goon.

-4 letters: add, ado, ago, and, dad, dag, dog, don, gad, gan, goa, god, goo, nag, nod, nog, noo, odd.

-5 letters: ad, ag, an, do, go, na, no, od, on.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-n-o-o"
 

+2 letters: dodecagon, dragooned, gadrooned.

 

+3 letters: dodecagons.

 

+4 letters: downloading, roadholding.

 

+5 letters: roadholdings.

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

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