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Goods vs Goodless - What's the difference?

goods | goodless |

As a noun goods

is (business|economics|plurale tantum) that which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.

As an adjective goodless is

without goods or property; destitute.

goods

English

Noun

(head)
  • (business, economics, plurale tantum) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
  • (informal, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
  • (transport) freight (not passengers)
  • English plurals

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to produced, traded, or consumed "goods": returned, used, damaged, stolen, lost, dangerous, non-traded, intermediate, promotional, industrial, agricultural, imported, cheap, expensive, luxury, inferior, counterfeit, raw, processed, scarce, durable, perishable, baked, public, collective, digital, virtual, necessary, essential.

    Synonyms

    * (that which is consumed) wares * evidence, facts

    Antonyms

    * (that which is consumed) capital, services

    Derived terms

    * baked goods * bill of goods * brown goods * capital goods * come up with the goods * consumer goods * cost of goods sold * damaged goods * dangerous goods * deliver the goods * digital goods * dry goods * fancy goods * finished goods * get the goods on, have the goods on * goods and sales tax * goods train, goods van, goods wagon * grave goods * greige goods * heavy goods vehicle * leathergoods * nongoods * red goods * sell someone a bill of goods * smallgoods * softgoods * white goods

    External links

    * (wikipedia "goods")

    Anagrams

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    goodless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without goods or property; destitute.
  • *1892 , Horace Traubel, The conservator :
    • 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 .
  • *1922 , Henry Noel Brailsford, After the peace :
    • 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, [...]
  • *2009 , Alan Brudner, Punishment and Freedom :
    • Punishment conceived as the logical nemesis of the criminal's principle is embedded in a goodless normative framework; that is its home.
  • Worthless.
  • Lacking or devoid of good or goodness.
  • *1887 , William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, The faith that makes faithful :
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913)