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Good can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective.

good used as an adverb:

  1. Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

good used as a noun:

  1. The forces or behaviors that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
  2. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
  3. The abstract instantiation of something qualified by the adjective; e.g., "The best is the enemy of the good."
  4. An item of merchandise.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

good used as an adjective:

  1. Acting in the interest of good; ethical.
    "good intentions"
  2. Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
    "It’s a good watch."
  3. Of food, edible; not stale or rotten.
    "The bread is still good."
  4. Of food, having a particularly pleasant taste.
    "The food was very good."
  5. Of food, being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
    "Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow."
  6. Of food, healthful; containing vitamins and minerals.
    "Carrots are good for you."
  7. Pleasant; enjoyable.
    "The music, dancing, and food were very good."
  8. Of people, competent or talented.
    "a good swimmer"
  9. Effective.
    "a good worker"
  10. Favourable.
    "a good omen"
  11. Beneficial; worthwhile.
    "a good job"
  12. With "and", extremely.
    "The soup is good and hot."
  13. Holy.
    "Good Friday"
  14. Reasonable in amount.
    "all in good time"
  15. Large in amount or size.
    "A good part of his day was spent shopping."
  16. Entire.
    "This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

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What type of word is good?

As detailed above, 'good' can be an adverb, a noun or an adjective. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: good intentions
  2. Adjective usage: It’s a good watch.
  3. Adjective usage: The flashlight batteries are still good.
  4. Adjective usage: The bread is still good.
  5. Adjective usage: The food was very good.
  6. Adjective usage: Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
  7. Adjective usage: Carrots are good for you.
  8. Adjective usage: The music, dancing, and food were very good.
  9. Adjective usage: We had a good time.
  10. Adjective usage: a good swimmer
  11. Adjective usage: a good worker
  12. Adjective usage: a good omen
  13. Adjective usage: good weather
  14. Adjective usage: a good job
  15. Adjective usage: The soup is good and hot.
  16. Adjective usage: Good Friday
  17. Adjective usage: all in good time
  18. Adjective usage: A good part of his day was spent shopping.
  19. Adjective usage: It will be a good while longer until he's done.
  20. Adjective usage: He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.
  21. Adjective usage: a good while longer
  22. Adjective usage: a good amount of seeds
  23. Adjective usage: This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
  24. Adjective usage: The car was a good ten miles away.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of good are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of good, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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