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Definition of Goodish
1. Adjective. Moderately good of its kind. "A goodish wine"
2. Adjective. Large in amount or extent or degree. "A sizable fortune"
Similar to: Considerable
Derivative terms: Heftiness, Sizeableness
Definition of Goodish
1. a. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.
Definition of Goodish
1. Adjective. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. ¹
2. Adjective. Considerable; goodly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goodish
1. somewhat good [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goodish
Literary usage of Goodish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (1922)
"some eight or ten of goodish size, and the rest are all small. I can't help it.
I have not met an acquaintance. I have secured a stateroom, $2.50, ..."
2. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1873)
"Well, I used to read him a goodish bit, when I was a younger and better fellow
than I am now," he answered, " and, as you hear, I can still spout him a ..."
3. Thirty-seven Years of Big Game Shooting in Cooch Behar, the Duars, and Assam by Nṛipendra Nārāyaṇa Bhūpa (1908)
"... Tigress—Wandering Minstrels—Another Shoot— " Ratan Pershad "' bogged—A curiously
mixed Bag—goodish Sport— A first class Day—Boar chases a Leopard. ..."
4. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"goodish—This yan's a bit ov a cautious character in 't. It's a goodish bit ta
your hoose. Aye, an' what it's a goodish bit sen ye war here. ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"Considerable, though not very great; applied to quantity, distance, or time;
as, " It is a goodish size;" " There was a goodish drop of milk;" " It was a ..."
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