not bad

not bad

English

Etymology

This type of rhetorical figure of speech, a form of understatement, is called litotes.

Adjective

not bad (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Reasonably good.

   - What did you think of the guitarist?
   - Not bad, but the guitar solo could have been better.

Related terms

• not half bad

Translations

reasonably good

Catalan: no està malament Chinese: Mandarin: 不錯 (zh), 不错 (zh) (bùcuò) Dutch: niet slecht Finnish: ihan hyvä French: pas mal (fr) German: nicht schlecht, nicht schlimm Hungarian: nem rossz

Italian: niente male, non male, non c'è male Japanese: 悪くない (ja) (わるくない, warukunai) Latin: nōn male Lithuanian: neblogai Portuguese: nada mau m Russian: ничего́ (ru) (ničevó), неплохо́й (ru) (neploxój), недурно́й (ru) (nedurnój) Spanish: nada mal