| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_good-enough-but-not-excellent |
| 释义 | good enough but not excellentIf something is acceptable, it is good enough but it is not excellent. Your essay was acceptable, but I think you could have done better. The opposite of acceptable is unacceptable. His conduct since joining the company has been unacceptable. Reasonable is another word for acceptable, but it is most often used before a noun. They have a reasonable chance of winning. If something is adequate it is good enough for a particular purpose. Something that is passable is also good enough for a particular purpose, but it is not the best thing possible. The law provides adequate compensation for robbery victims. Does the school have adequate resources for every student? I speak passable Spanish. The toilets aren't exactly sparkling, but they're passable. If you think that something is good enough to suit a purpose, you can also say that it will do. This is used mainly in UK English. It's not perfect, but it'll do. Will this room do, or would you like another? The words satisfactory, fair, and average can refer to things that are as good as you expect them to be, but no more. All three words are also used in academic writing to rate or comment on a student's work. She turned out a satisfactory gateau. Your work has been satisfactory this term. I was fair at football, but certainly not fabulous. Your exam results were fair, but could improve. The food was just average, but the decor was amazing. Your marks in the course are average. The opposite of satisfactory is unsatisfactory. Your work was unsatisfactory. The most common words to say that something is neither good nor bad but satisfactory are ok (or okay) and fine. Ok is informal, and fine is used in everyday language, particularly in conversation. My holiday was okay, apart from the weather. I wouldn't order the pasta, if I were you - it's just ok. "How is everything?" "Oh, fine." In informal language, if you say that something is not bad or not too bad, you are saying it is fairly good or satisfactory. "How are you doing?" "Oh, not too bad." The food here's not bad. In informal language, things that are middling are neither good nor bad. The play was just middling. The expression all right has a very broad meaning, and can be used to say that something is just good enough. The film was all right, I suppose, though it's not going to win any awards (= the film was just good enough). Things that are decent or respectable are fairly good, or somewhat better than expected. The hours were good and the pay was decent. She has a respectable knowledge of classical music. If something is tolerable it is barely acceptable. The conditions on these trains are barely tolerable. For words that describe things that are better than acceptable, see the article at good. For words that describe people or things that are extremely good, see the article at excellent. For words that describe people or things that are better than everyone or everything else, see the article at best. |
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