Goldilocksadjective [ before noun ]
/ˈɡəʊl.dɪ.lɒks//ˈɡoʊl.di.lɑːks/used to describe a situation in which something is or has to be exactly right:
The Mayor takes a Goldilocks approach to his city's 18 percent growth: It's not too fast and not too slow.
Its nickname is the Goldilocks Bird, because it nests only when water levels are "just right".
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Perfect and faultless
- Arcadia
- consummate
- faultless
- flawless
- golden age
- immaculate
- impeccable
- irreproachable
- land
- land of milk and honey idiom
- made
- mint
- perfect
- Shangri-La
- sin 1
- storybook
- tee
- to a tee idiom
- unblemished
- unimpeachable
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Accurate and exact
Goldilocksnoun
/ˈɡəʊl.dɪ.lɒks//ˈɡoʊl.di.lɑːks/a girl in a traditional story who wanted things to be exactly a particular way, saying, for example, that one bed was too hard, one too soft, and one just right
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Mythological & legendary characters
- Abominable Snowman
- Anancy
- Ares
- Bellona
- bigfoot
- creature
- Cyclops
- demigod
- goddess
- hobbit
- imp
- Jack Frost
- leprechaun
- mermaid
- Orpheus
- Pleiades
- Poseidon
- Prometheus
- shape-shifter
- tooth fairy
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