no mean
Definition
› used to say a person is very good at a certain activity: He's no mean cook.Informal words for goodGood, better and bestQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of no mean from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- A-OK adjective
- banging adjective
- be the bee's knees idiom
- be the business idiom
- bodacious adjective
- champion adjective, exclamation
- juicy adjective (GOOD)
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic exclamation
- mega adjective
- neat adjective (GOOD)
- out of sight idiom
- plum adjective (GOOD)
- smashing adjective
- some determiner (EXCELLENT)
- splendiferous adjective
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous adjective
- swell adjective
- swell adverb
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Informal words for good
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