Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

good and

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 6.10 in modern English

Syllables: good and
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.

adv

Very; plenty; exceptionally; quite, utterly.

Example Sentences

"good and ready"
"I'll process his request when I'm good and ready, that's when!"
"As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
"[S]he doesn't insist on the whole vegetable-meat-fish-eggs aspect of eating, saying I'll get around to that when I'm good and ready for it."

Inflected Forms

more good and (comparative) most good and (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

nice and all too

Questions

What does good and mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, and.

How to pronounce good and

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