Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

double-plus-ungood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables: dou-ble--plus-un-good
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Terrible, very bad.

Example Sentences

"There's only one problem. Files converted from Word Perfect to Q&A format don't work with Q&A. Q&A thinks it has read in the file, but then the whole mess blows up. Ungood. Double plus ungood."
"But no excuses for the idiots who did the Cenotaph, double plus ungood!!"
"In the former case, obtaining the current version from the object store appears to be a form of “reset” operation [...]. That is double-plus ungood Git thinking.¶ In the latter case, an earlier version of the file is pulled out of the object store and placed into your working directory. This has the appearance of being a “revert” operation on the file. That too is double-plus ungood Git thinking."
"Summary: Mozilla Metathought seems ++Ungood"

Etymology

Coined by George Orwell (as doubleplusungood) in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Inflected Forms

doubleplusungood (alternative) double-plus ungood (alternative) double plus ungood (alternative) ++ungood (alternative, Internet)

Antonyms

double-plus-good

Questions

What does double-plus-ungood mean?: Terrible, very bad.
Where does double-plus-ungood come from?: Coined by George Orwell (as doubleplusungood) in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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