Adjective: ungood
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | ungooder |
| Superlative | ungoodest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more ungood |
| Superlative | most ungood |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1660, George Swinnock, “The Beauty of Magistracy: An Exposition of Psalm LXXXII.”, in Works, volume IV, published 1868, The Beauty of Magistracy, page 236:]
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Now to make a short story shorter, we all know this is very ungood for a new motor and I do not want to thank the person or persons who unwittingly left their fingerprints, of which I have photostatic copies, so that might detect the presence of graphite before staring the motor. [1947 March 8, “Dirty Work at the X-Roads?”, in Billboard, volume 59, number 11, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., published 15 March 1947, →ISSN, page 50:]
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What I was before wasn't good for me. But it was from that ungood that I put together something better: I had put together hope. From my own ungood I had created a future good. [1988, Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H., →ISBN, page 5:]
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“Way ungood guys, way ungood.” [2008, Rodney Davis, The Revelation Voyage, →ISBN, page 14:]
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And remember! Islam is ungood; atheism, file sharing, civil liberties and homosexuality are doubleplusungood. [2010 June 6, "Tim", “Re:McDonald's Ad Promotes Teenage Homosexuality”, in alt.socieity.liberalism (Usenet):]
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This man is very, very ungood. [2010, Timothy M. Dale, Joseph J. Foy, Kate Mulgrew, quoting Jon Stewart, “The Daily Show and the Politics of Truth”, in Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent Through American Popular Culture, →ISBN, Popular Culture as Public Space, page 48:]
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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. [2009, Andra Chambers, The Book of Wisdom, page 88:]
Adjectives inflected like ungood
wholsom,
seldom,
scared,
solemn,
silent,
beloved,
uptight,
perfect,
useless,
up-tight,
selfish,
distinct,
discreet,
Dutch,
reckless,
bumfuck,
worthless,
slender,
faithfull,
shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
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.
Verbs referencing "ungood"
German Adjectives
ungut, French Adjectives
inbon.