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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

good and en · ADV

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.
  2. (idiomatic, used as an intensifier) Very; plenty; exceptionally; quite, utterly.
    • good and ready
    • I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!
    • Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. 1946, H. L. Mencken, American Mercury:
    • As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is. 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island:
    • [S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it. 2008, Nancy Huston, Fault Lines, →ISBN:

Forms

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more good and Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most good and Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

nice and · all too