pas mal

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pa mal/ ~ /pɑ mal/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Adverb

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pas mal

  1. (litotes) not badly (reasonably well)
    Synonym: (Quebec) pas pire

Adjective

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pas mal (invariable)

  1. (litotes) not bad (reasonably good)
    une fille pas mala fairly pretty girl

Descendants

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  • Yiddish: פּאַמאַלניק (pamalnik)

Pronoun

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pas mal

  1. (idiomatic, informal) quite a bit, quite a few (a decent amount)
    • Revue française d'odonto-stomatologie, Volume 17:
      Cependant, nous apprenons qu’il fumait approximativement vingt cigarettes par jour et consommait pas mal d’alcool sous forme de whisky.
      However, we learn that he smoked about 20 cigarettes per day and drank quite a bit of alcohol in the form of whisky.