not bad

English

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Adjective

not bad (not comparable)

1. (litotes) Reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.

   Synonyms: not half bad, OK; see also Thesaurus:satisfactory

   Coordinate term: good

   Near-synonym: nonbad

   What did you think of the guitarist?
   Not bad, but that solo could have been better.

Translations

reasonably good

• Catalan: no està malament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不錯／不错 (zh) (bùcuò)

• Dutch: niet slecht
• Finnish: ihan hyvä, ei hassumpi
• French: pas mal (fr)
• German: nicht schlecht, nicht schlimm
• Hungarian: nem rossz
• Indonesian: lumayan (id)
• Italian: niente male, non male, non c'è male
• Japanese: 悪くない (ja) (わるくない, waruku nai)
• Latin: nōn male
• Lithuanian: neblogai
• Polish: niezgorszy, niezły (pl)
• Portuguese: nada mau m
• Russian: ничего́ (ru) (ničevó), неплохо́й (ru) (neploxój), недурно́й (ru) (nedurnój)
• Spanish: nada mal
• Swedish: inte illa, inte fy skam
• Thai: ไม่เลว (mâi-leeo)
• Turkish: fena değil (tr)