goodless

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/ˈɡʊdləs/

adjective

Without goods or property; destitute.

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OriginMiddle English goodles ← Old English gōdlēas →
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Meanings

adjectivegoodless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout goods or property; destitute.

    Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.

    2009, Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom
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    I have therefore declared that it is all one whether a man says "God" or "good:" he is saying the same thing in substance, and cannot be called "godless" until he is goodless.

    1892, Horace Traubel, The conservator

    It may be an exaggeration to suppose that the country deliberately injures itself a little in order to hurt the goodless town more, but it is certainly true that the peasants, farmers and landlords (where these survive) refuse to regard it as any part of their patriotic duty to make the least effort, [...]

    1922, Henry Noel Brailsford, After the peace

    Synonyms: beggared, impecunious, possessionless, almsless, arm, badly off, bankrupt, beggared

  2. not comparableWorthless.

    Synonyms: good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking

  3. not comparableLacking or devoid of good or goodness.

    If there are souls to whom this world seems a goodless realm, who fail to find divine tokens of love anywhere, you and I are partly responsible.

    1887, William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, The faith that makes faithful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWithout goods or property; destitute.

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adjectiveWorthless.

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Origin

  1. Old Englishgōdlēas“without good, miserable, bad, evil”
  2. Middle Englishgoodles“poor, without goods or property”
  3. Englishgoodless

From Middle English goodles (“poor, without goods or property”), from Old English gōdlēas (“without good, miserable, bad, evil”), equivalent to good + -less.

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APA

goodless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodless

MLA

“goodless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodless. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “goodless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/goodless.

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