qualitynoun
uk/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/quality noun (STANDARD)
B1 [ C or U ] how good or bad something is:
a shop advertising top quality electrical goods
The food was of such poor/low quality.
Their products are of very high quality.
I only buy good-quality wine.
The quality of the picture on our television isn't very good.
B1 [ U ] a high standard:
He's not interested in quality. All he cares about is making money.
quality of life
the level of enjoyment, comfort, and health in someone's life:
My quality of life has improved tremendously since I moved to the country.
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- What the problem comes down to is 'Will the consumer be willing to pay more for a higher quality product?'
- Is there any significant difference in quality between these two items?
- Price alone is not a reliable indicator of quality.
- Poor quality is the unacceptable face of increased productivity.
- These improvements in quality are the first fruits of our investment.
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Quality and standard
- benchmark
- cachet
- calibre
- conform
- conformance
- conformity
- grade
- ideal
- level
- mark
- notch
- plane
- prestige
- qualitative
- quality assurance
- quality control
- star
- status
- style
- upscale
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Suitable and acceptable
Lifestyles & their study
quality noun (CHARACTERISTIC)
B2 [ C ] a characteristic or feature of someone or something:
leadership qualities
He has a lot of good qualities but being organized isn't one of them.
[ + to infinitive ] I don't think he has the right qualities to be a teacher.
This cheese has a rather rubbery quality to it (= it is like rubber).
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- Her singing voice has a pure, crystalline quality.
- There's a dreamlike quality to the final stages of the film.
- Her voice had an extraordinary hypnotic quality.
- Her beauty had an incandescent quality to it.
- Cyril's most impressive quality was his innate goodness.
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Mind and personality
- (a) penny for your thoughts idiom
- -minded
- alter ego
- beauty
- beauty is only skin deep idiom
- better nature
- character
- cognitive
- ego
- inwardly
- Jungian
- mental
- mental age
- mentality
- penny
- quirk
- rational
- self
- spirit
- unconscious
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Conditions and characteristics
qualityadjective
uk/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/B1 [ before noun ] of a high standard:
This is a quality product.
mainly UK The story received little coverage in the quality papers (= more serious newspapers).
[ after verb ] informal very good:
That gig was quality.
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Extremely good
- admirable
- amazing
- ask for sb/sth
- award-winning
- awesome
- bowl
- brilliant
- incomparable
- incredible
- inspired
- irreplaceable
- life is just a bowl of cherries idiom
- outstanding
- parallel
- sick
- superlatively
- supremacy
- supreme
- terrific
- textbook
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Informal words for good