goodify

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verb

To make good; to improve.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

verbgoodify (third-person singular simple present goodifies, present participle goodifying, simple past and past participle goodified)

present singular third person goodifies · participle present goodifying · participle past goodified · past goodified

  1. nonstandardraretransitiveTo make good; to improve.

    Black may be planning to 'goodify' his bad bishop with a future ...♗g5, in which case he has the ...hxg5 option.

    2015, Cyrus Lakdawala, Tal: Move by Move, London: Everyman Chess, →ISBN, page 301
    2 more examples

    All its goodness wears a sickly hue: it is only the badness of the reckless brother that claims our interest, and even he is “goodified” at the end.

    1879, The International Review, volume 6, page 712

    Ellacu, if you will allow me the expression—which I believe is a neologism—those who are grateful have the ability “to goodify reality” [“buenear la realidad”].

    2018, Robert Lasalle-Klein, Jon Sobrino: Spiritual Writings

    Antonyms: deteriorate, worsen, shittify

  2. InternetethnicoffensiveslurtransitiveTo kill or murder a black person.

    Pastor Weathers goodified nigger bucksow Slough ^([sic]) with a single gunshot to the chest.

    2019 April 10, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger pastor kills tranny in Detroit”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022
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    The trigger niggers, Samuel Fayomi Brown, 20, of Hyattsville, and Tierek Ty Jay Thomas, 20, of Washington, police say, had a plan: Lure a marijuana dealer, to a dead-end street, surround its hooptie and take its $1,000 worth of pot. Goodified in the incident was Waasi Harron Raheem Young, 20, a Washington crapper that went by “YC” or “TrapFlavaCee,” according to court records.

    2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “"You are shooting me!"”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022

    An 18-year-old trigger teennigger, Dakale Bowman aka Sean Bowman, was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the goodification of 16-year-old anus lipped teendusa Taiyania Thompson that was ventilated in an apepartment near Gallaudet University on Thursday and gave a bat its wings the following Sunday, January 28, authorities said.

    2018 February 21, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Anus lipped teendusa posing with guns for social media was goodified by its boonfriend”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), retrieved 23 Aug 2022

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo make good; to improve.

Origin

From good + -ify. Of the second sense, coined in reference to the phrase the only good nigger is a dead nigger, a popular saying among white supremacists.

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APA

goodify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodify

MLA

“goodify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodify. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “goodify,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodify.

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