ALL meanings of do-gooder
do-good·er
D d - noun do-gooder a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer. 1
- noun do-gooder sb with good intentions 1
- noun do-gooder (derogatory) One who advocates a certain course of action, often of political or social concern, with the naïve and unreflected conviction of their own moral superiority. 0
- countable noun do-gooder If you describe someone as a do-gooder, you mean that they do things which they think will help other people, although you think that they are interfering. 0
- noun do-gooder a well-intentioned person, esp a naive or impractical one 0
- noun do-gooder a person who seeks to correct social ills in an idealistic, but usually impractical or superficial, way 0