goddamn good
3
7.9
- adjective
- /ˈɡɑːdˌdæm ɡʊd/
- Offensive
:
jodidamente bueno
- All the foods you would normally associate with grease and fat tasted so goddamn good that you could pretend you were being healthy.
- pretty goddamn good
- so goddamn good
Examples
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The food at that restaurant was absolutely goddamn good.
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Papa John is innocent and he makes a goddamn good pie too.
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A pretty goddamn good piece of psychology, eh?
Fiction book (1994) -
"He's been pretty goddamn good at getting them off, though."
Fiction book (1997) -
She said: "My poetry's pretty goddamn good."
Fiction book (1992) -
All in, I'd say that a 1-2 week turnaround on restoring power is pretty goddamn good.
Blog text (6) -
They're really goddamn good.
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Her performance in the play was goddamn good and received a standing ovation.
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I think this movie is goddamn good and deserves all the awards.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good or excellent in quality
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
815
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
626
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
605
2.7
Very good and impressive
257
3.4
Much better than most others in skill or quality
134
3.0
Better than expected and quite good
113
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
111
3.5
Of very high quality and extremely good
77
7.5
Very good and impressive at a skill
24
6.7
Very good and impressive
21
4.1
Very good and impressive
4
7.9
Very good and impressive
2
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
1
4.1
Very impressive and making people feel amazed
1
5.5
Very impressive and much better than you expect
1
9.0
Very good and impressive
Very exciting and surprising to see
Very good and impressive
Antonyms
How Good
- Offensive
3
7.9
257
3.4
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
487
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from the intensifying expletive 'goddamn' plus 'good', so a learner who knows both words can infer it means 'extremely good' or 'very good'. However, the use of a profanity as an intensifier and its pragmatic/registered nuance (offensive/emphatic) may be unexpected or confusing for some B1 learners, so the relation is not fully straightforward.
Etymology
Goddamn good uses the swear goddamn as a loud way to add force to good, like putting a heavy marker before a word to show strong feeling. Because that strong word makes the praise much bigger, the phrase means 'extremely good' or 'very impressive'.