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Definition: Goodish |
GoodishAdjective1. Moderately good of its kind; "a goodish wine". 2. Large in amount or extent or degree; "it cost a considerable amount"; "a goodly amount"; "received a hefty bonus"; "a respectable sum"; "a tidy sum of money"; "a sizable fortune". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goodish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references) |
Synonyms: GoodishSynonyms: goodly (adj), hefty (adj), respectable (adj), sizable (adj), sizeable (adj), tidy (adj). (additional references) |
| "Goodish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Goodish" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "goodish": do-goodish. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "goodish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | leidlich (fair, fairish, fairly, passable, passably, reasonable, reasonably, tolerable). (various references) | |
Manx | mie dy liooar (OK, well enough), lesh y vie. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oodishgay.(various references) | |
Romanian | bunişor (goodly). (various references) | |
Swedish | ganska bra (fair, fairly well, not bad, not so bad, tolerable). (various references) | |
Turkish | oldukça büyük (awful, liberal, pretty big, quite big, sizable, sizeable), iyice (clean, complete, completely, fair, fully, jolly well, over, proper, properly, quite, rather good, thoroughly, tolerable, tolerably, well, wide, widely), epey (a good deal of, a great deal of, a great many, fairly, not a little, pretty well, quite, reasonably, some, tidy, well), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, tolerably, vulgar). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khá tốt (fair), kha khá (fairish, half, halves, middlings, tol-lol, tol-lolish). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Goodish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: godis, godish, Goldich, Goodis, goolis, goonish, oddish, odish, rootish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "goodish" (pronounced 'Good"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-h-i-o-o-s" | |
-2 letters: goods, hoods. | |
-3 letters: digs, dish, dogs, ghis, gids, gods, good, goos, gosh, hods, hogs, hood, oohs, shod, shog, shoo, sigh. | |
-4 letters: dig, dis, dog, dos, ghi, gid, god, goo, gos, hid, his, hod, hog, ids, ods, oho, ohs, ooh, sod. | |
-5 letters: do, go, hi, ho, id, is, od, oh, os, sh, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-h-i-o-o-s" | |
+2 letters: girlhoods, kinghoods. | |
+3 letters: lightwoods. | |
+4 letters: dichogamous, dishonoring, floodlights, homogenised, hydrologies, hydrologist, knighthoods, theologised. | |
+5 letters: hydrologists, roadholdings, shadowboxing, woodshedding. | |
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