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not bad

not bad adjective: reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.

Adjective

not bad (not comparable)

  1. Reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.
    • Near-synonym: nonbad
    • What did you think of the guitarist?
      Not bad, but that solo could have been better.

not bad meaning in Malayalam, Indonesian and Thai

not bad in Malayalam

good enough, all right, adequate
അദുഷ്ട, ചീത്തയല്ലാത്ത, മോശമല്ലാത്ത, അത്രമോശമല്ലാത്ത, അക്ഷുദ്ര, ഭേദപ്പെട്ട

not bad in Indonesian

reasonably good
lumayan

not bad in Thai

reasonably good
ไม่เลว mâi-leeo

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Questions about not bad

What does not bad mean?
Not bad means reasonably good; almost good; mediocre.
What is not bad in Malayalam?
Not bad in Malayalam is അദുഷ്ട, ചീത്തയല്ലാത്ത, മോശമല്ലാത്ത. See Not bad meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is not bad?
Not bad is an adjective.

Words near not bad in the dictionary

  1. not anymore
  2. not as black as one is painted
  3. not as green as one is cabbage-looking
  4. not at all
  5. not at home to
  6. not bad
  7. not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
  8. not be caught dead
  9. not bear thinking about
  10. not before time
  11. not but

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: not bad (page history and authors); not bad (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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