goodish

Meanings

adjectivegoodish (not comparable)

not comparableRather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.
1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC
not comparableConsiderable; goodly.
The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC

adjectivemoderately good of its kind

Similar

adjectivelarge in amount or extent or degree

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

From good + -ish.

Bulgarian сносен

Finnish melko hyvä

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