not bad

English

Etymology

This type of rhetorical figure of speech, a form of understatement, is called litotes.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

not bad (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, litotes) Reasonably good.

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

Related terms

• not half bad

Translations

reasonably good

• Catalan: no està malament
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不錯 (zh), 不错 (zh) (bùcuò)

• Dutch: niet slecht
• Finnish: ihan hyvä
• French: pas mal (fr)
• German: nicht schlecht, nicht schlimm
• Hungarian: nem rossz

• 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
• Portuguese: nada mau m
• Russian: ничего́ (ru) (ničevó), неплохо́й (ru) (neploxój), недурно́й (ru) (nedurnój)
• Spanish: nada mal