ungood
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ungood¹
- /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English ungod, from Old English ungōd, equivalent to un- (“not”) + good (adjective). Popularised by its appearance in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.
adjective ungooder · more ungood · ungoodest · most ungood
- Not good; bad. An unjust judge, as one well observes, is a cold fire, a dark sun, a dry sea, a mare mortuum, an ungood god, contradictio in adjecto, monsters, not men, much less gods.
- Those who are not good; the wicked, evil, or bad. The authorities desire to deceive humankind, because they perceived him being in a kinship to the truly good. So they took the word 'good', they applied it to the ungood so that thru words they might deceive and bind him within the ungood.
Similar: bad · Opposite: good, double-plus-good
ungood²
- /ˈʌnˌɡʊd/ UK
Where it comes from
From Middle English ungod (“evil”), equivalent to un- (“lack of”) + good (noun). Cognate with German Low German Ungood (“bad, evil”), German Ungüte (“ungood”).
noun
- Lack or absence of good; goodlessness; bad Here we can see that electricity is merely a manifestation of the fundamental dichotomy of the dualistic universe, the struggle between Good and Ungood, between Yin and Yang.
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adjective
Similar: bad · Opposite: good, double-plus-good
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Talk about this word "ungood." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ungood. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. ungood. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ungood "ungood." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ungood.Cite this
@misc{ungood_2026,
title = {ungood},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ungood},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
