goodish
adj/ˈɡʊdɪʃ/
Etymology From good + -ish.
1
Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
- I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
2
Considerable; goodly.
- 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.1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “part 5”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- goodishness