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goodness

/good-nis/US // ˈgʊd nɪs //UK // (ˈɡʊdnɪs) //

好的,好东西,好处,好事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being good.
    • : moral excellence; virtue.
    • : kindly feeling; kindness; generosity.
    • : excellence of quality: goodness of workmanship.
    • : the best part of anything; essence; strength.
    • : a euphemism for God: Thank goodness!
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : : Goodness, you gave me a start! Goodness gracious!

Phrases

  • goodness gracious
  • goodness knows
  • for the sake of

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundecency, excellence

Examples

  • Thank goodness that we have this private-sector expertise that we want to shape into a global public good that gets to everybody on the planet.

  • Plato thought that before birth we resided in the world of “the Forms,” together with numbers, universals, and goodness itself.

  • We’re all bogged down and floundering, questioning our own goodness while we arch our eyebrows at our friends and argue over whose patch of muck is really solid ground.

  • We’re capable of great evil in some cases, but we’re also capable of great goodness.

  • So they don’t want to actually confront the United States Navy, for goodness sake.

  • But my goodness, even the air around Oxford University is studious.

  • All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop.

  • That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.

  • Enforcement of U.S Code, Title VII, Chapter 25A “Export Standards for Grapes and Plums” remains fully funded, thank goodness.

  • In a country with a constitution that values secularism, religion is still the prime indicator of morality and goodness.

  • And he stood up in the shameful fall of the people: in the goodness and readiness of his soul he appeased God for Israel.

  • In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.

  • Goodness only knew what a falchion was, but there was the Griffin, and his history was an improvement upon the eternal Cat.

  • After all she, Hilda, possessed some mysterious characteristic more potent than the elegance and the goodness of Janet Orgreave.

  • One finds new friends;—and dear little girls; and—goodness knows what I shall find next.