double-plus-good

adjective

Excellent; very good.

Meanings

adjectivedouble-plus-good (not comparable)

alternative doubleplusgood · alternative double-plus good · alternative double plus good · alternative ++good

  1. not comparableExcellent; very good.

    I think our glorious government's rewriting of language is double plus good, brother.

    1999 March 12, "BAM", “Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe (Usenet)
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    For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!

    1992, Norman Spiney, “Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative (Usenet)

    We can only agree with Mermin's anonymous physicist, but must add that they are double-plus-good rocks, full of promise.

    1999, Alan A. Grometstein, “Bells Thunderbolt 1964”, in The Roots of Things: Topics in Quantum Mechanics, →ISBN, page 511

    Nudging the nearly-closed bedroom door secret-agent style, I saw on the bed the double-plus-good definition of inviting.

    2005, Rand Clifford, Timing, →ISBN, page 384

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

Coined by British writer and journalist George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 雙加好 /双加好
  • 雙加好 /双加好 (shuāngjiāhǎo)Translations
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