Good vs. Fine: Difference and Comparison
Edited by Muazma Batool — By Muneeza Rehman — Published on October 21, 2023
Good often denotes a positive quality, while fine indicates an acceptable or satisfactory condition.
Difference Between Good and Fine
Good typically refers to something that possesses desirable qualities or characteristics, and can be used as a general adjective for almost anything positive, whether it's a person's nature, the quality of food, or the outcome of an event. On the other hand, fine leans towards the subtleties of adequacy or being satisfactory, often signaling that something is acceptable but not necessarily outstanding.
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Oct 21, 2023
When we hear the word good, it usually suggests a stronger and broader positive implication, such as commendable performance or a kind act. Fine can sometimes come across as more reserved, indicating that while nothing is wrong, it might not be exceptionally good. It’s often used to convey moderate satisfaction.
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Oct 21, 2023
In the context of health or well-being, if someone says they are feeling good, it often implies they are in high spirits or in a particularly positive state. Conversely, if someone says they are feeling fine, it might imply that they are simply okay or just not feeling bad.
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Oct 21, 2023
In everyday conversation, if someone asks about the quality of a meal at a restaurant and the response is "it was good," it often implies genuine enjoyment or satisfaction. However, if the response is "it was fine," it suggests that the meal was acceptable but perhaps not memorable.
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Oct 21, 2023
Good vs. Fine Comparison Chart
Good vs. Fine Definitions
◉Good
Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor
a good experience.
good news from the hospital.
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◉Good
Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing
a good exterior paint.
a good joke.
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◉Good
Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable
Is this a good dress for the party?.
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◉Fine
(Metallurgy) Containing pure metal in a specified proportion or amount
gold 21 carats fine.
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◉Good
Used formerly to refer to the US Government grade of meat higher than standard and lower than choice.
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◉Fine
Able to make or detect effects of great subtlety or precision; sensitive
has a fine eye for color.
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◉Fine
Trained to the highest degree of physical efficiency
a fine racehorse.
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◉Fine
Being in a state of satisfactory health; quite well
"How are you?" "I'm fine.".
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◉Fine
A sum of money required to be paid especially to the government as a penalty for an offense.
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◉Good
In effect; operative
a warranty good for two years.
a driver's license that is still good.
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◉Good
Ready or able for a specified or assumed activity
I'm good for another round of golf.
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◉Good
Able to pay or contribute
Is she good for the money that you lent her?.
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◉Fine
Of superior quality.
The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
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◉Fine
(ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
You're a fine one to talk about laziness.
Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.
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◉Fine
(informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
How are you today? – Fine.
Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.
It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three.
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◉Fine
(informal) Good-looking, attractive.
That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.
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◉Good
Landing within bounds or within a particular area of a court and therefore in play
The first serve was wide, but the second was good.
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◉Fine
An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
Do you want to talk about what happened? – [sharply, with annoyance or discomfort] I'm fine!
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◉Good
Passing between the uprights of the goal and therefore scoring, as a field goal in football.
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◉Good
Used to form exclamatory phrases expressing surprise or dismay
Good heavens! Good grief!.
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◉Fine
Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
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◉Fine
Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
Grind it into a fine powder.
When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
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◉Fine
Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
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◉Fine
Made of slender or thin filaments.
They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
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◉Fine
Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
Coins nine tenths fine.
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◉Fine
(cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
...to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fournb...
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◉Good
goods(Slang) Incriminating information or evidence
tried to get the goods on the crook.
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◉Good
Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
good intentions
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◉Fine
In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
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◉Good
Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit; used with for.
Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
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◉Fine
Something that is fine; fine particles.
They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
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◉Good
Well-behaved (especially of children or animals).
Be good while your mother and I are out.
Were you a good boy for the babysitter?
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◉Fine
A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
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◉Good
(US) Satisfied or at ease; not requiring more.
Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
[Are] you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
Gimme another beer! — I think you're good.
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◉Fine
(obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that his or her rent may be small or nominal.
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◉Good
Accepting of, OK with
My mother said she's good with me being alone with my date as long as she's met them first.
The soup is rather spicy. Are you good with that, or would you like something else?
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◉Fine
(Cantab slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
Fine if you've…
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◉Fine
(music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
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◉Good
Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
it’s a good watch;
the flashlight batteries are still good
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◉Fine
(feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
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◉Fine
A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
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◉Fine
(transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
to fine gold
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◉Good
Of food or other perishable products, still fit for use; not yet expired, stale, rotten, etc.
The bread is still good.
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◉Good
Valid, of worth, capable of being honoured.
This coupon is good for a free doughnut.
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◉Fine
To change by fine gradations.
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
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◉Good
True, valid, of explanatory strength.
This theory still holds good even if much higher temperatures are assumed.
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◉Fine
To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
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◉Fine
(transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
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◉Fine
Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold.
A cup of wine that's brisk and fine.
Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars.
To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats].
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◉Fine
Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing.
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◉Fine
Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.
He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman.
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◉Good
Holy especially when capitalized .
Good Friday, Good Wednesday, the Good Book
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◉Fine
Not coarse, gross, or heavy
The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.
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◉Fine
Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
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◉Good
Large in amount or size.
a good while longer;
a good number of seeds;
A good part of his day was spent shopping.
It will be a good while longer until he's done.
He's had a good amount of troubles, he has.
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◉Good
Full; entire; at least as much as.
This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.
The car was a good ten miles away.
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◉Fine
To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men.
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◉Good
That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
Good! I can leave now.
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◉Fine
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
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◉Good
(nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
The boy done good. (did well)
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◉Fine
To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
I often sate at homeOn evenings, watching how they fined themselvesWith gradual conscience to a perfect night.
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◉Good
(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
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◉Fine
To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
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◉Good
(uncountable) The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
The best is the enemy of the good.
He is an influence for good on those girls.
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◉Fine
To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.
I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down in the westward until I lost of her hull.
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◉Fine
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
Is this the fine of his fines?
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◉Fine
A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
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◉Fine
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
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◉Fine
A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
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◉Good
(transitive) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
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◉Fine
In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.
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◉Fine
issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty;
I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street
Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
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◉Fine
superior to the average;
in fine spirits
a fine student
made good grades
morale was good
had good weather for the parade
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◉Good
Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
Good company, good wine, good welcome.
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◉Fine
being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition;
an all-right movie
the passengers were shaken up but are all right
is everything all right?
everything's fine
things are okay
dinner and the movies had been fine
another minute I'd have been fine
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◉Good
Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; - said of persons or actions.
In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works.
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◉Fine
minutely precise especially in differences in meaning;
a fine distinction
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◉Good
Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; - often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.
The men were very good unto us.
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◉Fine
of texture; being small-grained or smooth to the touch or having fine particles;
wood with a fine grain
fine powdery snow
fine rain
batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave
covered with a fine film of dust
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◉Good
Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; - followed especially by for.
All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in merit.
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◉Fine
being in good health;
he's feeling all right again
I'm fine, how are you?
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◉Good
Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; - followed especially by at.
He . . . is a good workman; a very good tailor.
Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing else.
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◉Fine
thin in thickness or diameter;
a fine film of oil
fine hairs
read the fine print
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◉Good
Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.
My reasons are both good and weighty.
My meaning in saying he is a good man is . . . that he is sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.
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◉Fine
characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment;
fine wine
looking fine in her Easter suit
a fine gentleman
fine china and crystal
a fine violinist
the fine hand of a master
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◉Good
Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.
Love no man in good earnest.
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◉Fine
; free or impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity;
gold 21 carats fine
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◉Good
Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.
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◉Fine
(of weather) pleasant; not raining, perhaps with the sun shining;
a fine summer evening
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◉Good
Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.
Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.
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◉Good
Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.
A good name is better than precious ointment
The good woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all.
Distinguished by good humor and good breeding.
My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing.
The good nature and generosity which belonged to his character.
The young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among his best characteristics.
The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that the old customers will resort to the old place.
Each word made good and true.
Of no power to make his wishes good.
I . . . would by combat make her good.
Convenient numbers to make good the city.
If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.
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◉Good
That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; - opposed to evil.
There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?
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◉Good
Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; - opposed to harm, etc.
The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing the good of each of the members composing it.
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◉Fine
A sum of money imposed as a penalty.
He had to pay a fine for parking illegally.
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Sep 05, 2023
◉Good
Wares; commodities; chattels; - formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property.
He hath made us spend much good.
Thy lands and goodsAre, by the laws of Venice, confiscateUnto the state of Venice.
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◉Good
Well, - especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.
They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.
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◉Good
moral excellence or admirableness;
there is much good to be found in people
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◉Good
that which is good or valuable or useful;
weigh the good against the bad
among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization
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◉Good
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified;
good news from the hospital
a good report card
when she was good she was very very good
a good knife is one good for cutting
this stump will make a good picnic table
a good check
a good joke
a good exterior paint
a good secretary
a good dress for the office
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◉Good
having the normally expected amount;
gives full measure
gives good measure
a good mile from here
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◉Good
deserving of esteem and respect;
all respectable companies give guarantees
ruined the family's good name
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◉Good
promoting or enhancing well-being;
an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries
the beneficial effects of a temperate climate
the experience was good for her
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◉Good
superior to the average;
in fine spirits
a fine student
made good grades
morale was good
had good weather for the parade
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◉Good
of moral excellence;
a genuinely good person
a just cause
an upright and respectable man
the life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous
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◉Good
having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude;
adept in handicrafts
an adept juggler
an expert job
a good mechanic
a practiced marksman
a proficient engineer
a lesser-known but no less skillful composer
the effect was achieved by skillful retouching
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◉Good
with or in a close or intimate relationship;
a good friend
my sisters and brothers are near and dear
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◉Good
having or showing or arising from a desire to promote the welfare or happiness of others;
his benevolent smile
a benevolent nature
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◉Good
most suitable or right for a particular purpose;
a good time to plant tomatoes
the right time to act
the time is ripe for great sociological changes
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◉Good
resulting favorably;
its a good thing that I wasn't there
it is good that you stayed
it is well that no one saw you
all's well that ends well
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◉Good
exerting force or influence;
the law is effective immediately
a warranty good for two years
the law is already in effect (or in force)
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◉Good
in excellent physical condition;
good teeth
I still have one good leg
a sound mind in a sound body
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◉Good
tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health;
beneficial effects of a balanced diet
a good night's sleep
the salutary influence of pure air
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◉Good
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well');
the children behaved well
a task well done
the party went well
he slept well
a well-argued thesis
a well-planned party
the baby can walk pretty good
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◉Good
in a complete and thorough manner (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly');
he was soundly defeated
we beat him good
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◉Good
Possessing desirable qualities.
The book provides a good overview of the topic.
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Sep 05, 2023
Good vs. Fine Frequently Asked Questions
How is fine usually perceived in conversations?
Fine suggests something is adequate or satisfactory, but not necessarily outstanding.
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Oct 21, 2023
Is fine used to describe quality?
Yes, fine can refer to high quality, especially in the context of detail or craftsmanship.
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Oct 21, 2023
How do the intensities of good and fine compare?
Good typically has a stronger positive implication, while fine is more reserved.
Leo
Oct 21, 2023
In what context can fine refer to money?
Fine can refer to a sum of money imposed as a penalty or fee.
Elijah
Oct 21, 2023
Can good be used to describe morality?
Yes, good can describe someone or something that is morally right or commendable.
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What does good generally imply in everyday speech?
Good often refers to a positive or desirable quality.
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If someone says a meal was "fine," how was it?
It was acceptable, but not necessarily memorable or exceptional.
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Can good be used to discuss skill or competence?
Yes, stating someone is good at something denotes competence or skill in that area.
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Oct 21, 2023
How is fine used in the context of health?
Fine often indicates someone is in an okay state, without particular ailments or concerns.
William
Oct 21, 2023
Which word is broader in positive implication?
Good has a broader positive implication than fine.
Levi
Oct 21, 2023
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