According to my Macquarie dictionary the word GOOD, stuck between gonorrhoea and goose, means ‘excellent, righteous or agreeable’.

The opposite meaning I guess would be BAD, wedged between bacteria and badger and apparently means ‘ not good, inadequate, or unfavourable’.

However back to the word GOOD, this benign adjective works its way into everyday sentences with a broad array of meanings other than those stated above.

There seems to be no benchmark to tell us ‘how good is GOOD’, yet we all know exactly how good is GOOD in a conversation, for instance, we might say:

Gee we had good rain, another person might say, no we didn’t get good rain.

 

What! How much rain here are we describing, yet all involved in the conversation knows what is a lot of rain, little rain or no rain.

I might say to my son, don’t you use my good scissors, he knows exactly what I mean. Are we implying here that there could be some ‘bad’ scissors?

You may describe someone’s illness saying, gee he is no good at all, it’s likely the person is about to depart this life. However, if you said, I’m not feeling too good, you are probably just a bit off colour.

Then of course we all have, a good dress, or a good coat, and we all have a pair of good shoes. The list can go on.

The word GOOD features in other phrases:
As good as, make good, good for you, up to no good, good show, good luck, good on you, good-oh (now what does that really mean)!?

When making a positive statement to a captive audience, if you shove in the word GOOD it is up to the baffled listener to work out the degree of goodness in that Wonderful word GOOD, and that my friends, is the trouble with Good!