FOR GOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does for good mean? 

• FOR GOOD (adverb)
  The adverb FOR GOOD has 1 sense:

1. for a long time without essential change

  Familiarity information: FOR GOOD used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOR GOOD (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For a long time without essential change

Synonyms:

for good; permanently

Context example:

he is permanently disabled

 Context examples 

“There are in you all powers for good,” was Maud Brewster’s answer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

After a slight preparation for good news, the letter was read aloud.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He have infect you—oh, forgive me, my dear, that I must say such; but it is for good of you that I speak.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As I say, I heard the talk, and I knew it for good talk, and I knew that in the night the Russians were to be killed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

With the brow of a philosopher above and the jaw of a sensualist below, the man must have started with great capacities for good or for evil.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rose once to the surface in a lather of foam and blood and then sank again for good.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yet these powers are ever used for good, and they are the gift of God and not of the devil, which is the difference betwixt white magic and black.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Occasionally it goes away, either temporarily or for good.

(Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

So my good luck is all due to her, and I shall never leave her until she starts back to Kansas for good and all.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Like other men, they passed out of Buck’s life for good.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)