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Dictionary entry overview: What does goodish mean?
• GOODISH (adjective)
The adjective GOODISH has 2 senses:
1. moderately good of its kind
2. large in amount or extent or degree
Familiarity information: GOODISH used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Moderately good of its kind
Context example:
a goodish wine
Similar:
good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Large in amount or extent or degree
Synonyms:
goodish; goodly; healthy; hefty; respectable; sizable; sizeable; tidy
Context example:
a sizable fortune
Similar:
considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)
Context examples
I placed my palms against the main-mast, which was of a goodish bigness, and waited, every nerve upon the stretch.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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