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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, ethicality, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, graciousness, honesty, honor, humaneness, integrity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, obligingness, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, wholesomeness, worth |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
goodness; excellence, merit; virtue; value, worth, price., superexcellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A1, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy., tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand., beneficence; good man.
-verbs
be beneficial; produce good, do good [more]; profit (be of use); benefit; confer a benefit., be the making of, do a world of good, make a man of., produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve., do no harm, break no bones., be good; excel, transcend (be superior); bear away the bell., stand the proof, stand the test; pass muster, pass an examination., challenge comparison, vie, emulate, rival.
-adjectives
harmless, hurtless; unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive., beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable (useful); advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary (healthful)., favorable; propitious (hope-giving) [more]; fair., good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior; above par; nice, fine; genuine (true)., best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackerjack, crackajack, giltedged; superfine, superexcellent; of the first water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard (perfect); inimitable.
-adverbs
beneficially; well.
-phrases
"Jewels five words long" [Tennyson]; "long may such goodness live!" [Rogers]; "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith].
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| Antonyms: | badness |
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| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, comity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | animosity, greediness, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, benignity, bountifulness, bounty, caritas, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, lenity, love, magnanimity, mercy, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | excellence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superiority |
| Synonyms: | arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superbness, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
| Antonyms: | failure, imperfection, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charitableness, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, disinterestedness, due, duty, equitableness, equity, exactitude, fair shake, fair-mindedness, give and take, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, justness, legitimacy, moderation, open-mindedness, propriety, rationality, reasonableness, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | generosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of giving |
| Synonyms: | all heart, alms-giving, altruism, beneficence, benevolence, bounteousness, bounty, charitableness, charity, free giving, goodness, heart, high-mindedness, hospitality, kindness, largesse, liberality, magnanimity, munificence, nobleness, openhandedness, philanthropy, profusion, readiness, unselfishness |
| Antonyms: | greed, meanness, selfishness, stinginess |
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy, forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, caritas, charity, clemency, compassion, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lenity, love, pardon, quarter, reprieve, responsiveness, tenderness |
| Antonyms: | mercilessness, unforgiveness |
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