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unˈgood, a. Now rare.
[OE. ungód (un-1 7), = MDu. ongoet (older Du. ongoed), MLG. ungût (LG. ungôd), OHG., MHG. unguot (G. ungut), ON. úgóðr (Norw. dial. ugod).]
a. Not good; evil, bad; wicked.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 184 Seldan he bið eald, ungodan deaðe he swylt. Ibid. 188. c 1200 Ormin 16739 Forrþi þatt teȝȝre dede iss all Unngod & all unnclene. Ibid. 17056. a 1300 E.E. Psalter i. 1 In strete of sinfulle noght he stode, Ne sat in setel of storme un-gode. c1305Judas Iscariot 22 in E.E.P. (1862) 107 Loþ hem was..a bern to norischie, so liþer and vngod. 1390Gower Conf. I. 20 The vice of hem that ben ungoode Is no reproef unto the goode. c1445Pecock Donet 37 Þat þing whiche resoun knowiþ..to be bad, or vngood. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 675 His synows..Are brokyn sonder by payns vngude!
(b) In mod. use.
1904C. N. & A. M. Williamson Princess Passes xii, You have been so good to us; don't be ungood now. 1949‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-Four i. 53 If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. 1964W. Golding Spire viii. 150 Jocelin found the capstone ungood to look at.
b. absol. or as n.
a1250Owl & Night. 129 Al so hit is þi þan vngode Þat is icumen of fule brode. Ibid. 1364 Vor nys a worlde þing so god Þat ne may do sum vngod. a1568in Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Cl.) 203/86 Vngud and gud sall fair,..Bot richteous gud..lestis for euir mair. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 248 For universal good, and for suppression of the ungood. |
