Jean Prokott, a Century High School English teacher and author, was named last week as the city's third poet laureate since the post was created in 2012. Feel free to pin it or share it as you like.ROCHESTER - The newest poet-in-chief in Rochester has big goals for Minnesota's third-largest city. Below the list is a graphic version of the list. Not all words work equally well in any situation. Be careful to know the word well, including its connotations, before using it in writing or formal speech. Notice that I am using good only in its adjectival sense and not as a noun (that would require another list entirely).Īs usual, I’ve linked all the words to their dictionary definition. I hope you find the organization helpful.Īlso check out: 100 Ways to Say “Said”/ 250 Ways to Say “Went”/ 100 Ways to Say “Bad” I’m happy with these three types of good, however. I could have done it any number of ways and with a great many more categories. I therefore broke the list into three general kinds of good. All the words below seek to communicate a more particular kind of goodness than good generally denotes. That’s what makes good both a useful word - in its broadness and adaptability - and a poor word - in its bland lack of specificity. And by good, one might mean any of those qualities or all of them. A good baseball player, for example, might be swift, adroit, powerful, keen-eyed, intelligent, fearless, and fierce. Almost any virtue might be replaced with good. Good is such a broadly-used word, covering so much ground, it has literally hundreds of potential synonyms depending on context and the specific type of “goodness” one wishes to express. What was a surprise is how difficult it was to limit the list to 100. I covered ways to say bad last time, so I guess this is no big surprise. Today I present the next in my Ways to Say series: 100 Ways to Say Good.
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