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Angliholic Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Good-natured//good-will water fights

For three days, people hold parades and cheerfully splash one another in the streets. The parades often turn into good-natured water fights where it is impossible to stay dry.

Hi,

Is "good-natured" in the above equal to "good-will?" If not, what are their differences? Thanks.
  

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'Good-natured' is an adjective and 'goodwill' is a noun. Rover

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'Good-natured' is an adjective and 'goodwill' is a noun.

Rover
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Thanks, Rover.

I meant "good-will," and I think it can be used as an adjective.
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'Good-will' is not a currently common spelling. 'Goodwill' is both noun and adjective:

GOODWILL: friendly, helpful, or cooperative feelings or attitude: the scheme is dependent on goodwill between the two sides a goodwill gesture

Is "good-natured" in the above equal to "goodwill?"-- No, not really. The first merely means 'amiable'; the second carries an earnestne
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"Good-natured" and "good-will" seem to have similar meanings, but they are not synonyms and cannot be used interchangeably with each other. First, "good-natured" is a pure adjective, while "good-will" is a noun. A noun in English can be used as an adj., but when you do this the result is something like a compound noun, where the two words are almost unified into one entity, like in the word "han
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Not really, and this is certainy not true: A "good-will water fight" has the nature of something almost like a permanent entity that takes place without fail every single year.

Learners get strange ideas sometimes.
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