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    Largish means fairly big — not huge, not small, but on the large side of ordinary. The -ish on the end is a . English uses it when the speaker does not want to be exact: smallish, , . So largish is a hedge. A largish room is bigger than you expected, but you are not calling it large and being done with it. It is informal, everyday speech, more spoken than written. You would not put it in a science report; 'a largish sample' sounds sloppy there. Use it when size is a feeling, not a number.

    頗大的、相當大

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組成large + -ish (somewhat, rather). The -ish goes back through Middle English and Old English to an old Germanic ending.

同家族的字

  • largethe base adjective
  • smallishsame -ish, meaning rather or somewhat

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largishadj

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    Somewhat large.

    • […]in Ford Prefect's satchel were a few ballpoints, a notepad and a largish bath towel from Marks and Spencer.
    • Humans, buffered by cultural and behavioral options, can often tolerate largish changes in climatic conditions.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。