As Good As

Definition: As Good As

As Good As

Adjective

1. Being essentially equal to something; "it was as good as gold"; "a wish that was equivalent to a command"; "his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: As Good As

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Equality

Equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous; synonymous; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant, equiponderous, equibalanced; equalized; Verb: drawn; half and half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric, isoperimetrical; isobath, isobathic.

Nearness

About; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh.

Observance

Adjective: observant, faithful, true, loyal; honorable; true as the dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole; punctual, punctilious; literal; (exact); as good as one's word.

Probity

Redeem one's pledge; keep one's promise, be as good as one's promise, be as good as one's word; keep faith with, not fail.

Constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; "marble-constant"; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible.

Retaliation

Verb: retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate; turn the tables upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo; Noun: give as much as one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be quits, be even with; pay off old scores.

Veracity

Adjective: truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous; (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling; (dissemble; ); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous; (artless); undisguised; (real).

Crosswords: As Good As

As good as that! (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

Is he as good as you say? (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur)

Almost as good as you. (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

What if this is as good as it gets? (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

Any place is as good as another. (From Dusk Till Dawn; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

As good as any to start drinking. (You Me and The Bottle Makes Three Tonight; performing artist: Big Daddy)

Nobody does it half as good as you. (NOBODY DOES IT BETTER; performing artist: CARLY SIMON)

No one could look as good as you---mercy ("Oh Pretty Woman"; performing artist: Roy Orbison)

I'm the man Not conceited I'm as good as I say I am (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith)

As Good as Married (1937)

Stock Is as Good as Money (1913)

Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Whimsical Bakehouse: Fun-To-Make Cakes That Taste As Good As They Look! (reference)

• A Pretty Good Person: What It Takes to Live With Courage, Gratitude, & Integrity or When Pretty Good Is As Good As You Can Be (reference)

• As Good as a Yarn with You : Letters between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjory Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Romantic Comedy Gift Set (My Best Friend's Wedding / Sleepless in Seattle / The Wedding Planner / As Good as It Gets) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The RONALD H. BROWN in drydock in San Diego. A new coat of paint and the ship looks as good as new. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

This may not be as good as your resolution, boys, but I think it's the best we can get ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Our sales tax in New York has been just as good as I said it would be bad ... Credit: Library of Congress.

The Imperial Burlesquers as good as the best. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

So that, in effect, there was never the less left for others because of his enclosure for himself: for he that leaves as much as another can make use of, does as good as take nothing at all. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The iron soldier is as good as the Iron Duke.

But I am as good as you any day.

Gold were as good as twenty orators, And will, no doubt, tempt him to anything.

We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This may be as good as, or better than, the new approach. (references)

In fact, your vision may not be as good as it was before surgery. (references)

New treatments under study are not always better than, or even as good as, standard care. They may have side effects that doctors do not expect or that are worse than those of standard treatment. (references)

Business

The overall market in Taiwan for alarms and other detection devices has not been as good as hoped in the recent years, mainly due to noticeable remnant effects of the Asian financial crisis. (references)

Worker Rights

Jamaica

Management determines wages and benefits within the free zones; these are generally as good as or better than those in similar industries outside the zones. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "as good as": as good as a play ♦ as good as dead ♦ as good as gold ♦ as good as new ♦ As good as one's word ♦ be as good as dead ♦ be as good as one's word ♦ give as good as one gets ♦ he's as good as a gold ♦ it is as good as settled. Additional references.

Albanian

s mbetem në borxh (give as good as one gets), pothuaj i vdekur (as good as dead). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في الواقع (actually, as a matter of fact, by sheer force, de facto, factually, fundamentally, in effect, in fact, indeed, rather, reality, really, truly, truth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

не оставам длъжен (give as good as one gets). (various references)

Chinese 

不啻 (as, like, not less than), 不下于 (as many as, no less than, not inferior to, on a par with). (various references)

Czech

nezùstat nikomu nic dlužen (give as good as one gets), je to zlaté dítì (he's as good as a gold), je to skoro vyřízené (it is as good as settled). (various references)

Finnish

yhtä (equally), jonkun veroinen (a match for, a person's equal). (various references)

French

pratiquement, pour ainsi dire. (various references)

German

neuwertig (as good as new, as new, mint), äußerst amüsant (as good as a play). (various references)

Greek 

σχεδόν (all but, almost, close on, just about, near, nearly, nigh, practically, thereabout, thereabouts, virtually, well nigh). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"חזיר באותו מטבע (give as good as one gets), לא ל�"שאר חיב (give as good as one gets, pay one's way). (various references)

Hungarian

szinte (next door to, quasi), jóformán (pretty well). (various references)

Indonesian

sebaik (as soon as). (various references)

Italian

come nuovo (as good as new). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

紙屑同然 (as good as waste paper, mere scrap of paper), 新�"�同様 (as good as new). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し�"ぴ�"どうよう (as good as new), かみくずどうぜ�" (as good as waste paper, mere scrap of paper). (various references)

Pig Latin

asay oodgay asay

Romanian

aproape (about, afar, all but, almost, anigh, approximately, at one's elbow, at the point of, close, close by, close upon, far, far away, hard, immediately, just about, little or nothing, near, near by, nearby, nearly, neighbor, neighbour, nigh, remotely, some, soon, thereabouts), ca şi (as, like, like as, next). (various references)

Russian 

фактически (actually, as a matter of fact, de facto, factually, in effect, in fact, in point of fact, practically, practically speaking, virtually). (various references)

Scottish

cho (as, as good as that, so : cho math ri sin). (various references)

Spanish

devolver con la misma moneda (give as good as one gets). (various references)

Swedish

så gott som (virtually), praktiskt taget (practically). (various references)

Thai

ความพึงพอใจในสิ่งที่ตนมีอยู่ (enough is as good as a feast). (various references)

Turkish

taşı gediğine koymak (give as good as one gets, make a point). (various references)

Ukrainian

фактично (actually, in effect, in fact, in practice, in reality, practically, virtually), майже (about, all but, almost, anear, approximately, but, half, hard upon, just about, much, near, nearby, nearly, next door to, next to, nigh, nighly, practically, quasi, quite, well nigh, within), по суті (basically, essentially, in effect, materially, morally, per se, substantially). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: dagos, goads, goods, sagas, sagos, sodas.

-4 letters: ados, agas, dago, dags, dogs, doss, gads, goad, goas, gods, good, goos, ossa, saga, sago, sags, soda, sods.

-5 letters: aas, ado, ads, aga, ago, ass, dag, dog, dos, gad, gas, goa, god, goo, gos, ods, sad, sag, sod, sos.