Usually means: Beneficial, desirable quality; morally right.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word good:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. good, the good: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. good: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. good: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. good: Collins English Dictionary
  5. good: Vocabulary.com
  6. Good, Good, good, good, good, good, good, good, good: Wordnik
  7. good, the good: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Good, good: Wiktionary
  9. good: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. good: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. good: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. good, the good: Dictionary.com
  13. good (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. good: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. G.O.O.D. (record label), GOOD, Good (Goodshirt album), Good (Morphine album), Good (accounting), Good (disambiguation), Good (economics), Good (economics and accounting), Good (film), Good (magazine), Good (play), Good (political party), Good (song), Good (surname), Good: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Good: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. good: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. good: Rhymezone
  19. good: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. good: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Good: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. good: Free Dictionary
  23. good: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. good: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. good: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. good: Glossary of research economics
  3. Good: FACS Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms
  4. Good: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  5. Good (album), Good (disambiguation), Good (economics and accounting), good: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GOOD: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Good (album), Good (disambiguation), good: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. good: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GOOD: Acronym Finder
  4. good: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. good: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Good: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. good, good, good: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Good: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. good-: The Folk File
  4. Good, Good, The good, goo'd, good: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Good: Coin Collecting

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of people or animals)
adjective:  Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
adjective:  Competent or talented.
adjective:  Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
adjective:  Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
adjective:  (US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
adjective:  (colloquial, with with) Accepting of, OK with
adjective:  (archaic) Of high rank or birth.
adjective:  (of capabilities)
adjective:  Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
adjective:  Effective.
adjective:  (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
adjective:  (properties and qualities)
adjective:  (of food)
adjective:  Having a particularly pleasant taste.
adjective:  Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
adjective:  Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
adjective:  Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
adjective:  True, valid, of explanatory strength.
adjective:  Right, proper, as it should be.
adjective:  Healthful.
adjective:  Pleasant; enjoyable.
adjective:  Favourable.
adjective:  Unblemished; honourable.
adjective:  Beneficial; worthwhile.
adjective:  Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
adjective:  (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely. See good and.
adjective:  (colloquial) Ready
adjective:  Holy (especially when capitalized) .
adjective:  (of quantities)
adjective:  Reasonable in amount.
adjective:  Large in amount or size.
adjective:  Full; entire; at least as much as.
adverb:  (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
noun:  (uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
noun:  (countable) A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
noun:  (uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
noun:  (countable, usually in the plural) An item of merchandise.
verb:  (intransitive, now) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
verb:  (transitive) To make good; turn to good; improve.
verb:  (intransitive) To make improvements or repairs.
verb:  (intransitive) To benefit; gain.
verb:  (transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
verb:  (transitive) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
verb:  (reflexive) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
verb:  (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.
noun:  (philosophy) Plato's metaprinciple of proper systemic function between principles; the fundamental Platonic form which enables knowledge and metacognition, from which other concepts such as truth, justice and virtue derive meaning.

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