# ungood

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/

## Definitions
1. Not good; bad.
2. Those who are not good; the wicked, evil, or bad.

## Etymology
From Middle English ungod, from Old English ungōd, equivalent to un- (“not”) + good (adjective). Popularised by its appearance in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ungood