as good as

1. see good as.

2. Practically, in effect, almost the same as, as in He as good as promised to buy a new car, or The house is as good as sold. This idiom is very widely used to modify just about any verb, adverb, or adjective. However, it has been used so often with certain words that together they themselves now make up idioms (see the following entries beginning with good as).

Example Sentences

As good as her word, Penelope recited “Wanderlust,” and several other poems as well.

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Then she replied to Cecily, who listened attentively before explaining, “She wants you to know that dinner was excellent. Very rarely does she taste an authentic Hungarian goulash in England. She says it was nearly as good as the one she makes herself.”

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“I hope you do not mind; I have already ordered lunch for us both. The food here is just as good as people say, but you absolutely must save room for dessert—dear me, Penny! How grown-up you look! You have become quite pretty, did you know that?”

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The actors were good, as good as Leed’s Thespians on Demand, the popular troupe Lady Constance had hired to perform at the disastrous holiday ball at Ashton Place.

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Among Colored people there developed an adage: “You have to be twice as good in order to be thought of as half as good” as your White counterparts.

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Related Words

• about 
• approximately 
• around 
• essentially 
• most 
• much 
• practically 
• relatively 
• roughly 
• virtually