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not half bad

not half bad adjective: pretty good, imperfect but more than OK.

Adjective

not half bad (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Pretty good, imperfect but more than OK.
    • It was his first attempt at cooking, but I tried it and it was not half bad.
    Synonyms:
    satisfactory

not half bad meaning in Bengali

not half bad in Bengali

বেশ ভালো

Synonyms of not half bad

Origin of not half bad

Variant of not bad. Compare not half.

Questions about not half bad

What does not half bad mean?
Not half bad means pretty good, imperfect but more than OK.
What is not half bad in Bengali?
Not half bad in Bengali is বেশ ভালো. See Not half bad meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is not half bad?
Not half bad is an adjective.

Words near not half bad in the dictionary

  1. not going anywhere
  2. not grow on trees
  3. not guilties
  4. not guilty
  5. not half
  6. not half bad
  7. not happy, Jan
  8. not hardly
  9. not have a bean
  10. not have a care in the world
  11. not have a clue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: not half bad (page history and authors); not half bad (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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