Word Meanings - GOODNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GOODNESS)
- Merit
- Goodness
- worth
- worthiness
- desert
- excellence
- Virtue
- Power
- capacity
- strength
- force
- efficacy
- value
- morality
- goodness
- uprightness
- purity
- chastity
- salubrity
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GOODNESS)
- Miscompute
- misestimate
- disesteem
- disregard
- vilipend
- underrate
- undervalue
- underestimate
- despise
- contemn
- cheapen
- vilify
Related words: (words related to GOODNESS)
- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - PURITY
The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from - MISCOMPUTE
To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne. - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - UNDERRATE
A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - DISESTEEMER
One who disesteems. Boyle. - CONTEMNER
One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - VALUE
1. To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. The mind doth value every moment. Bacon. The queen is valued thirty thousand strong. Shak. The king must - STRENGTHENING
That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects. - UNDERVALUE
1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this - VILIFY
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and - MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
See INTERNODE - WORTH
1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in - EFFICACY
Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force; - MERITORY
Meritorious. - FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - TEMERITY
Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - EMERITUS
Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - MERIT
deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that - IMPOWER
See EMPOWER