goodish

English

Etymology

good +‎ -ish

Adjective

goodish (not comparable)

1. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
   • 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:

     I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.

2. Considerable; goodly.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

     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.

Translations

rather good than the contrary

• Bulgarian: сносен (bg) (snosen)
• Finnish: melko hyvä

References

• “goodish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.