NOUN | attribute | goodness, good | that which is pleasing or valuable or useful / useful |
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attribute | goodness, good | moral excellence or admirableness |
Sounds | guh'dnahs; guh'dnihs | |
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Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
abyss ... worthiness: 194 rhymes with ihs... |
Meaning | That which is pleasing or valuable or useful / useful. | |
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Synonym | good | |
Narrower | benefit, welfare | Something that aids or promotes well-being |
better | Something superior in quality or condition or effect | |
better | The superior one of two alternatives | |
desirability, desirableness | The quality of being worthy of desiring | |
optimum | Most favorable conditions or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances | |
wisdom, wiseness, soundness | The quality of being prudent and sensible | |
worthiness | The quality or state of having merit or value | |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
Opposite | bad, badness | That which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency |
Spanish | bien, bueno | |
Catalan | bé | |
Adjectives | good | having desirable / desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified |
good | promoting or enhancing well-being | |
good | tending to promote physical well-being | |
good | appealing to the mind | |
good | most suitable or right for a particular purpose |
Meaning | moral excellence or admirableness. | |
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Synonym | good | |
Attributes | good | morally admirable |
Narrower | beneficence | The quality of being kind or helpful or generous |
benignity, benignancy, graciousness | The quality of being kind and gentle | |
kindness | The quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic | |
saintliness | The quality of resembling a saint | |
summum bonum | The supreme good in which all moral values are included or from which they are derived | |
virtue, virtuousness, moral excellence | The quality of doing what is right and avoiding / avoiding what is wrong | |
virtue | A particular moral excellence | |
Broader | morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
Opposite | evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
Spanish | bondad | |
Catalan | bondat | |
Adjectives | good | morally admirable |
good | deserving of esteem and respect | |
good | of moral excellence |
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