goodish

goodish
a) Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

The white rock, visible enough above the brush, was still some eighth of a mile further down the spit, and it took me a goodish while to get up with it, crawling, often on all fours, among the scrub.

b) Considerable; goodly.

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  • goodish — adjective (only before noun) BrE informal 1 a goodish distance/number etc quite a long way, quite a lot etc 2 fairly good but not very good …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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