Take "good", for instance. 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.
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Ungood
//ˌʌnˈɡʊd//
Synonyms for "ungood" (23 found)
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French
2 entries- inbon adj (not good; bad)
- mauvais adj (not good; bad)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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