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)

(litotes) Reasonably good.
What did you think of the guitarist?
Not bad, but that solo could have been better.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:satisfactory

Derived terms

not half bad

Translations

reasonably good

Catalan: no està malament
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不錯／不错 (zh) (bùcuò)
Dutch: niet slecht
Finnish: ihan hyvä, ei hassumpi
French: pas mal (fr)
German: nicht schlecht, nicht schlimm
Hungarian: nem rossz
Indonesian: lumayan (id)
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
Polish: niezgorszy, niezły (pl)
Portuguese: nada mau m
Russian: ничего́ (ru) (ničevó), неплохо́й (ru) (neploxój), недурно́й (ru) (nedurnój)
Spanish: nada mal
Swedish: inte illa, inte fy skam
Thai: ไม่เลว (mâi-leeo)
Turkish: fena değil (tr)

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