quite a few

English

Determiner

quite a few

1. An indefinite and somewhat large number; more than a few; a fair number of.

   I've watched quite a few basketball games in my time.

   • 2022 May 20, ISP, quoting iSorrowproductions, What Happens When You Randomise EVERYTHING In Minecraft‎^[1]:

     Well, they say money doesn't grow on trees, but what about iron helmets? I appear to have quite a few of those.

Synonyms

• (indefinite and somewhat large number): quite some (proscribed)

Translations

indefinite and somewhat large number

• Bashkir: байтаҡ (baytaq), күп кенә (küp kenə)
• Catalan: bastant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好幾 / 好几 (zh) (hǎojǐ), 不少 (zh) (bùshǎo), 相當多 / 相当多 (xiāngdāng duō)

• Dutch: heel wat
• Finnish: aika moni, melko moni
• French: pas mal de (fr), nombre de (fr) m, bon nombre de (fr)
• Greek: αρκετός (el) (arketós)
• Italian: un bel po'
• Japanese: 少なからぬ (sukunakaranu), かなりの (ja) (kanari no)
• Macedonian: не баш малку (ne baš malku)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: en del

• Occitan: pas mau de
• Polish: sporo (pl)
• Portuguese: bastante (pt)
• Russian: не та́к уж ма́ло (ne ták už málo), дово́льно мно́го (dovólʹno mnógo)
• Scots: a guid pickle
• Slovak: hodne, viacero, nemálo
• Spanish: bastante (es)
• Swedish: ganska många

Noun

quite a few

1. An indefinite and somewhat large number.
   • 2016, Walter Laqueur, Worlds Ago: A Memoir of My Journeying Years‎^[2]:

     About a third, perhaps more, were killed in the war; of the survivors quite a few were wounded, some severely.

Translations

large number

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 好幾 / 好几 (zh) (hǎojǐ), 不少 (zh) (bùshǎo), 相當多 / 相当多 (xiāngdāng duō)

• Finnish: aika moni, monet (fi) pl
• French: un bon nombre m, pas mal (fr)
• Portuguese: bastantes (pt)
• Russian: довольно много (dovolʹno mnogo)

Usage notes

• Quite a few indicates a relatively large amount; quite few, a very small one.

See also

• a fair few
• a lot
• a few
• few
• several
• quite
• quite a bit

Further reading

• “quite a few”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.