not bad

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

not bad (not comparable)

(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

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