From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnot so big/good/bad etcnot so big/good/bad etcnot very big, good etc I’m afraid the news is not so good. Of course I’d like to help, but things aren’t so simple. → so
Examples from the Corpus
not so big/good/bad etc• But so happen, one little boy not so good.• Compared to how I feel, how I look is not so bad.• She began to think that perhaps village life was not so bad.• Some years it was bad, other years not so bad.• When he was hot, he was hot, but for me the whole thing was not so good.• My tongue not so good anyway.• It is not so good at knowing how to do it.• But it's not so bad down here. 