I need an 'in-between' word.

How about Great? praiseworthy? Dunno exactly in which context you want it though.....

acceptable, ace, admirable, agreeable, brilliant, capital, choice, commendable, congenial, crack, deluxe, excellent, exceptional, favorable, first-class, first-rate, gnarly, gratifying, great, honorable, marvelous, neato, nice, pleasing, positive, precious, prime, rad, recherché, reputable, satisfactory, satisfying, select, shipshape, sound, spanking, splendid, sterling, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superior, tip-top, valuable, welcome, wonderful, worthy, admirable, blameless, charitable, dutiful, estimable, ethical, exemplary, guiltless, honest, honorable, incorrupt, inculpable, innocent, irreprehensible, irreproachable, lily-white, obedient, praiseworthy, pure, reputable, respectable, right, righteous, sound, tractable, uncorrupted, untainted, upright, virtuous, well-behaved,

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=good

Well its a word that needs to go on my CV...............me thinks the word 'great' wont be quite right. ................

A big JZK for the words super mod.

Now i'm going to try and fit them into my sentence and see which one fits best................by the way how'd you manage to find all those words so quick? :clever:

the context I need it in is


'Possesses good research and IT skills'



Possesses excellent research and IT skills'


Now I'm smack bang in the middle - what word do I use?

Basically I used Thesaurus.com before and copy and pasted, but now that you have provided the context, we can pick some suitable ones out:

valuable
extraordinary notable
noteworthy remarkable unique
admired appreciated beneficial cherished
esteemed, estimable, held dear, helpful, high-priced, hot, hot property, important, in demand, precious, prized, profitable, relevant, respected treasured, useful, valued, worthwhile, worthy advantageous ace, attractive, best ever, cat's pajamas (?), choice, commendable, cool, copacetic, crack, crackerjack, daisy, deadly, deserving, dilly, doozie, dream, estimable, excellent, exquisite, fine, gnarly, good, great, greatest, groovy, heavy, hunky dory, keen, laudable, mean, meritable, meritorious, neat, peachy, praiseworthy, rare, smashing, solid, spiffy, super, super-duper, superior, unreal, wicked, wonderful, worthy

constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, wholesome, worthyexceeding, exceptional, finer, fitter, greater, higher quality, improved, larger, more appropriate, more desirable, more fitting, more select, more suitable, more useful, more valuable, preferable, preferred, prominent, sharpened, sophisticated, souped up, superior, surpassing, worthier

consequential, considerable, eminent, prime, principal, prominent, serious, significant, substantial, super, super colossal, best, elect, elite, exceptional, exclusive, exquisite, fine, excessive, executive, exorbitant, effective, implicit, positive, practical, productive, useful,

format_quote Originally Posted by Muslimah81

the context I need it in is


'Possesses good research and IT skills'



Possesses excellent research and IT skills'


Now I'm smack bang in the middle - what word do I use?

Very competent research and IT skills.

They love the word competent, so many nice, juciy connotations for them to lull over. Eitherway, nothing wrong with excellent, such a vague word its not as if your making an unfair/fraudulent claims.

Hahaa imagine writing:

'I am quite the cat's pyjamas when it comes to my research and IT skills'!

I reckon competent wins the competition - a virtual mars bar for whoever suggested it!

jzk :cat:

Greetings,

"Cat's pyjamas" is quite old-fashioned - you'd sound like someone from the 50s if you said that! Plus it actually means "quite good" - it's not in the middle.

Hang on Muhammad! All those words you suggested are synonyms for "excellent". For middle words you need: fair, decent, mainstream, mediocre, average, adequate, middling, median, typical, unexceptional, standard, ordinary, pedestrian - something like that.

Peace

Greetings,

Yes I think I tried searching with both the words 'good' and 'excellent' and I felt that some synonyms for excellent were appropriate, especially since we were given the context of a CV, where we need to try to express our skills as best as possible

Peace.