goodwill

1. 1.

   (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)

   Synonymsgood will

   Broaderintangible

   accounting

2. 2.

   the friendly hope that something will succeed

   Synonymsgood will

   Broaderfriendliness
3. 3.

   a disposition to kindness and compassion

   “the victor's grace in treating the vanquished”

   Synonymsgracegood will

   Broadergood nature

Other forms of goodwill

plural

goodwills·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about goodwill

What does goodwill mean?

goodwill means "(accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in goodwill?

goodwill has 2 syllables: good-will. The stress falls on "good". In IPA it is /ˈɡʊˈdwɪl/.

What is another word for goodwill?

Close synonyms include good will, good will, grace, good will. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is goodwill a common word?

goodwill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.