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UK
/ɡˈʊdɪʃ/
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ADJECTIVE
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large in amount or extent or degree
a goodly amount
a tidy sum of money
it cost a considerable amount
a sizable fortune
a respectable sum
received a hefty bonus
a sizable fortune -
moderately good of its kind
a goodish wine
How To Use goodish In A Sentence
- They knew all the signs of the dance and all about it, in those days, when it was not unusual to see three generations of the same family in the same set; when the healthful mind and conscience recognized the fact that the majority of people commit forty times more sin with their tongues than they do with their toes; when the blessed differentiation was made between "piosity" (as Bishop Williams of Connecticut happily expresses it) and piety - between goodishness and godliness. The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
- She was brought up in the country, rides well (side-saddle), plays a goodish game of tennis, but does not know a stoat from a weasel or notice the direction of the wind. Try Anything Twice
- Their office building was a goodish distance from the subway station.
- Invite a few goodish friends (ideally with a halfway decent dress sense, otherwise things could turn nasty). Times, Sunday Times
- ‘His next run will on a right-handed track, which is flat and has goodish ground’, said trainer, Jessica Harrington.
- a goodish wine
- The partisan of Revolution of 1911 put to use a lot of goodish strategy methods when they got on consensus propagandas.
- He is reaching the point where it's goodish. Times, Sunday Times
- In (1), the doubler will have a goodish opening hand (goodish, because partner has to bid at the three-level). Times, Sunday Times
- The ground was goodish that day, we wouldn't want any more rain. The Sun