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double-plus-ungood

double-plus-ungood adjective: terrible, very bad.

Adjective

double-plus-ungood (not comparable)

  1. Terrible, very bad.
    • There's only one problem. Files converted from Word Perfect to Q&A format don't work with Q&A. Q&A thinks it has read in the file, but then the whole mess blows up. Ungood. Double plus ungood.1990 March 19, Jerry Pournelle, “Federal Expres Can Even Deliver the File Transfer Blues”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 12, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc., →ISSN, page 54
    • But no excuses for the idiots who did the Cenotaph, double plus ungood!!2000 May 2, "[destroy]", “Re:You fucking bastards”, in uk.local.london (Usenet)

Antonyms of double-plus-ungood

Forms of double-plus-ungood

alternative formdoubleplusungood
alternative formdouble-plus ungood
alternative formdouble plus ungood
alternative Internet++ungood

Origin of double-plus-ungood

Coined by George Orwell (as doubleplusungood) in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about double-plus-ungood

What does double-plus-ungood mean?
Double-plus-ungood means terrible, very bad.
What part of speech is double-plus-ungood?
Double-plus-ungood is an adjective.

Words near double-plus-ungood in the dictionary

  1. double-play
  2. double-plays
  3. double-plus good
  4. double-plus ungood
  5. double-plus-good
  6. double-plus-ungood
  7. double-pointed needle
  8. double-pole
  9. double-pole technique
  10. double-poled
  11. double-quick

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