good |
1. adj. of people | |
2. adj. Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral. | |
good intentions | |
3. adj. Competent or talented. | |
a good swimmer | |
4. adj. Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit. | |
Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it. | |
5. adj. (US) Satisfied or at ease | |
Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good. | |
Are you good? — Yeah, I'm fine. | |
6. adj. of capabilities | |
7. adj. Useful for a particular purpose; functional. | |
it’s a good watch; the flashlight batteries are still good | |
8. adj. Effective. | |
a good worker | |
9. adj. (obsolete) Real; actual; serious. | |
in good sooth | |
10. adj. of properties and qualities | |
11. adj. (of food) | |
12. adj. # Edible; not stale or rotten. | |
# The bread is still good. | |
13. adj. # Having a particularly pleasant taste. | |
# The food was very good. | |
14. adj. # Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements. | |
# Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow. | |
15. adj. Healthful. | |
carrots are good for you; walking is good for you | |
16. adj. Pleasant; enjoyable. | |
the music, dancing, and food were very good; we had a good time | |
17. adj. Favourable. | |
a good omen; good weather | |
18. adj. Beneficial; worthwhile. | |
a good job | |
19. adj. Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious. | |
20. adj. (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. | |
The soup is good and hot. | |
21. adj. Holy (especially when capitalized). | |
Good Friday | |
22. adj. of quantities | |
23. adj. Reasonable in amount. | |
all in good time | |
24. adj. Large in amount or size. | |
a good while longer; a good number of seeds; A good part of his day was spent shopping. It will be a good while longer until he | |
25. adj. Full; entire; at least as much as. | |
This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb. The car was a good ten miles away. | |
26. interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation. | |
Good! I can leave now. | |
27. adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly. | |
28. n. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence. | |
29. n. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker. | |
30. n. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc. | |
The best is the enemy of the good. | |
31. n. (usually in plural) An item of merchandise. | |
32. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve. | |
33. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve. | |
34. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs. | |
35. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain. | |
36. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain. | |
37. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify. | |
38. v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate. | |
39. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise. | |
breeding |
1. n. Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction. | |
2. n. The act of insemination by natural or artificial means. | |
3. n. The act of copulation in animals. | |
4. n. The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity. | |
5. n. Nurture; education; formation of manners. | |
6. n. Descent; pedigree; extraction. | |
Your dog has good breeding. | |
7. n. (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography. | |
8. adj. Of, relating to or used for breeding. | |
Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria. | |
9. v. present participle of breed | |
Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world. | |
breed |
1. v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. | |
2. v. To give birth to; to be the native place of. | |
a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men | |
3. v. Of animals, to mate. | |
4. v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities. | |
5. v. To arrange the mating of specific animals. | |
She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull. | |
6. v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities. | |
He tries to breed blue roses. | |
7. v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up. | |
8. v. To yield or result in. | |
disaster breeds famine; familiarity breeds contempt | |
9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth. | |
10. v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up. | |
11. v. To produce or obtain by any natural process. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied. | |
13. v. to ejaculate inside someone's ass | |
14. n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies. | |
a breed of tulip | |
a breed of animal | |
15. n. A race or lineage; offspring or issue. | |
16. n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics. | |
People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
ancestry |
1. n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. | |
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison. | |
2. n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. | |