goodless

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goodless

/ˈɡʊdləs/

Where it comes from

From Middle English goodles (“poor, without goods or property”), from Old English gōdlēas (“without good, miserable, bad, evil”), equivalent to good + -less.

adjective

not comparable Without goods or property; destitute. I have therefore declared that it is all one whether a man says "God" or "good:" he is saying the same thing in substance, and cannot be called "godless" until he is goodless.
Similar: beggared, impecunious, possessionless, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggarly, boracic, broke, broken, broker than the Ten Commandments
not comparable Worthless.
Similar: good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish
not comparable Lacking or devoid of good or goodness. If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible.

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@misc{goodless_2026,
  title = {goodless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goodless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}