Usually means: Person who performs acts of kindness.
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  1. do-gooder: Merriam-Webster
  2. do-gooder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. do-gooder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. do-gooder, do-gooder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. do-gooder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Do-Gooder, do-gooder: Wordnik
  7. do-gooder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. do-gooder: Wiktionary
  9. do-gooder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. do-gooder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. do-gooder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. do-gooder: Dictionary.com
  13. do-gooder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Do-gooder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. do-gooder: Rhymezone
  16. do-gooder: FreeDictionary.org
  17. do-gooder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. do-gooder: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. do-gooder: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. do-gooder: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

Similar:
improver, humanitarian, dogooder, do-gooderism, self-denier, protagonist, altruist, moralist, angel's advocate, badvocate, more...

Opposite:
misanthrope, malefactor, wrongdoer, malevolent, villain

Phrases:
Do-gooder derogation, more...
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Similar:
improver, humanitarian, dogooder, do-gooderism, self-denier, protagonist, altruist, moralist, angel's advocate, badvocate, more...

Opposite:
misanthrope, malefactor, wrongdoer, malevolent, villain

Phrases:
Do-gooder derogation, more...



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