Definition of
Do-gooder
- (noun, person) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
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Synonyms of Do-gooder
Origin of the word Do-gooder
- "a person who seeks to correct social ills in an idealistic, but usually impractical or superficial, way," 1654 (as do-good), in "Zootomia, or Observations on the Present Manners of the English: Briefly Anatomizing the Living by the Dead. With An Usefull Detection of the Mountebanks of Both Sexes," written by Richard Whitlock, a medical doctor. Probably used even then wi… more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
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