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good

adjective
  1. Having pleasant desirable qualities: nice. Scots: bonny, braw. See good
  2. To one's liking: agreeable, congenial, favorable, grateful, gratifying, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, welcome. See like
  3. Suited to one's end or purpose: appropriate, befitting, convenient, expedient, fit 1, meet 2, proper, suitable, tailor-made, useful. See agree, good
  4. In excellent condition: entire, flawless, intact, perfect, sound 2, unblemished, unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unmarred, whole. See thrive
  5. Well above average: high-grade, nice. See good, ability
  6. Affording benefit: advantageous, benefic, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, favorable, helpful, profitable, propitious, salutary, toward, useful. See help
  7. Having the ability to perform well: able, capable, competent, skilled, skillful. See ability
  8. Not counterfeit or copied: actual, authentic, bona fide, genuine, indubitable, original, real, true, undoubted, unquestionable. See true
  9. Notably above average in amount, size, or scope: big, considerable, extensive, great, healthy, large, large-scale, sizable. Informal: tidy. See big
  10. Not more or less: complete, entire, full, perfect, round, whole. See part, precise
  11. Indicative of future success or full of promise: auspicious, benign, bright, brilliant, fair, favorable, fortunate, propitious. See luck
  12. Beyond reproach: blameless, exemplary, irreprehensible, irreproachable, lily-white, unblamable. See right
  13. Having or marked by uprightness in principle and action: honest, honorable, incorruptible, righteous, true, upright, upstanding. Informal: straight-shooting. Idiom: on the up-and-up (or up and up). See honest
  14. Characterized by kindness and concern for others: altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, benign, benignant, goodhearted, kind 1, kindhearted, kindly. See attitude, kind
noun
  1. Something that contributes to or increases one's well-being: advantage, benefit, interest (often used in plural), profit. See help
  2. The quality or state of being morally sound: goodness, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness. See right
  3. A product or products bought and sold in commerce. Used in plural: commodity, line, merchandise, ware. See matter, transactions
  4. One's portable property. Used in plural: belonging (often used in plural), effect (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal: stuff. Law: chattel, movable (often used in plural). See owned

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