double-plus-good

double-plus-good

See also: double-plus good, double plus good, and doubleplusgood

English

Alternative forms

• doubleplusgood
• double-plus good
• double plus good
• ++good (internet)

Etymology

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

Adjective

double-plus-good (not comparable)

1. Excellent, very good.
   • 1992, Norman Spiney, “Info about SKREW?”, in alt.music.alternative, Usenet‎:

     For someone like myself who loves the MINISTRY album Mind... this new album is double plus good!

   • 1999 March 12, "BAM", “Re:Use of the "J" word (RANT!)”, in alt.toys.gi-joe, Usenet‎:

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

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

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

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

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

Antonyms

• ungood, double-plus-ungood