Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

double-plus-good

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.66 in modern English

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

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excellent; very good.

Example Sentences

"For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!"
"I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother."
"We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise."
"Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting."

Etymology

Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Inflected Forms

doubleplusgood (alternative) double-plus good (alternative) double plus good (alternative) ++good (alternative)

Antonyms

ungood double-plus-ungood

Questions

What does double-plus-good mean?: Excellent; very good.
Where does double-plus-good come from?: Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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