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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the
end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable;
useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil,
noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc. |
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Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious;
religious; -- said of persons or actions. |
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Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite;
propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward,
also formerly by unto. |
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Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be
relied upon; -- followed especially by for. |
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Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed
especially by at. |
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Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious;
valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of
obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit. |
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Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good
earnest; in good sooth. |
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Not small, insignificant, or of no account;
considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good
degree, a good share or part, etc. |
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Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. |
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Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied;
as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. |
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That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success,
welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind,
benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil. |
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Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity;
advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc. |
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Wares; commodities; chattels; -- formerly used in the
singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost
all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. |
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Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following
as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as
little harm as possible. |
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To make good; to turn to good. |
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To manure; to improve. |