Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of double-plus-good.
So words like great, excellent and horrible are rendered redundant in Newspeak, replaced by “plusgood”, “doubleplusgood” and “doubleplusungood” respectively.
2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet1 more example
Something can be described as “good,” but if it is better than good, it is described as “plusgood,” or, if it is even better than that, “doubleplusgood.” Likewise, the word “bad” does not exist, but rather “ungood” or “plusungood.”
2019 August 30, Rose Brennan, ““Nineteen Eighty-Four”: A Look into a “Doubleplusungood” Future”, in The Quadrangle
Cite this entry
doubleplusgood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doubleplusgood
“doubleplusgood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doubleplusgood. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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