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goody-goody

goody-goody adjective: mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.

Adjective

goody-goody (comparative goody-goodier, superlative goody-goodiest)

  1. (derogatory) Mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.

Noun

goody-goody (plural goody-goodies)

  1. (derogatory) A well-behaved person with no obvious human failings, with the possible exception of smugness and self-satisfaction.
    • I hate being such a goody-goody sometimes.2007 November 14, Jocelyn Samara DiDomenick, quoting Lavender Jennings, “LAVENDER TOWN: Chapter 2”, in DeviantArt (short novel), archived from the original on 24 Jul 2022

goody-goody meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

goody-goody in Urdu

دین دار, نیک, پارسا

goody-goody in Malayalam

sanctimonious, self-righteous, pious
സ്വയംതൃപ്തഭാവമുള്ള, നല്ലപിള്ളചമയുന്ന, നല്ലവനെന്നു നടിക്കുന്ന, പുണ്യാളത്തനാട്യമുള്ള, പരിശുദ്ധ ഭാവമുള്ള, നടപടിക്രമങ്ങൾ മുറുകെപിടിക്കുന്ന

Synonyms of goody-goody

All synonyms of goody-goody

Forms of goody-goody

Adjective
comparativegoody-goodier
superlativegoody-goodiest
alternative formgoodygoody
alternative formgoody goody
Noun
pluralgoody-goodies

Words formed from goody-goody

Questions about goody-goody

What does goody-goody mean?
Goody-goody means mawkishly good; weakly benevolent or pious.
What is goody-goody in Urdu?
Goody-goody in Urdu is دین دار, نیک, پارسا. See Goody-goody meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is goody-goody?
Goody-goody can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near goody-goody in the dictionary

  1. goody two-shoes
  2. goody-goodier
  3. goody-goodies
  4. goody-goodiest
  5. goody-goodiness
  6. goody-goody
  7. goody-goody-two-shoes
  8. goody-goodyish
  9. goody-goodyism
  10. goody-two-shoes
  11. goodyear

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goody-goody (page history and authors); goody-goody (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); goody-goody (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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