jim-dandy
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɪmˌdændi/
- Archaic
:
excelente
- Average cost of a new car: seventeen hundred bucks. Remember our jim-dandy Chevy wagon?
Examples
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The Sixth Avenue freeway is tied up around Lincoln, but 685 is looking jim-dandy in both directions.
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I'm telling you, this is a jim-dandy.
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Last night, as of ten o'clock, everything was jim-dandy.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm just jim dandy, Mr. Kross.
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That's just jim-dandy.
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The new restaurant in town is simply jim-dandy with its delicious food and great atmosphere.
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Her performance in the play was jim-dandy; everyone in the audience was impressed.
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After reviewing the project, the manager said it was a jim-dandy piece of work that exceeded all expectations.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very good or excellent in quality
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
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3.5
Of very high quality and extremely good
77
7.5
Very good and impressive at a skill
49
3.8
Very high quality or done very well
49
3.4
Of the highest quality and very good
38
3.6
Of the highest quality and better than most similar things
24
6.7
Very good and impressive
16
7.8
Very good and of high quality
14
4.4
Very high quality and among the best
9
3.8
Very high quality and lasts a long time
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7.8
Very good and impressive
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7.9
Very good and impressive
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9.9
Very good and of the highest quality
Very good and of the highest quality
Very good and of high quality
Very good and the best in quality
Very good and enjoyable
Antonyms
How Good
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word jim-dandy comes from joining the name Jim with the word dandy, where dandy means 'very fine' or 'stylish' and Jim helps make it a catchy phrase. So a jim-dandy is something especially good or first-rate.