tolerable
IPA: tˈɑɫɝʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.
- Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.
- Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.
- In fair health; passably well.
adverb
- (dialect) tolerably; passably; moderately.
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Examples of "tolerable" in Sentences
- Of course, Warren might regret actually finishing the drink, which he described as "tolerable, but not good."
- The only thing that makes it remotely tolerable is the fact that the government in question is as local as possible.
- At the same time, the only thing that makes incipient American Fascism tolerable is seeing Conservatives fall victim to it.
- Read on, and thou wilt find thy spirit engaged: not by the deserts of what we call tolerable, but by the commands of a pen that is above it.
- More tolerable is a similar practice in the realm of hard news, as when Tom Brokaw or Wolf Blitzer utters the plural WMD ( 'weapons of mass destruction').
- In the class of 1844 one student obtained his degree of A.B. whose grades in the Senior year were "very bad" in Latin, "tolerable" in Chemistry and in Constitutional Law.
- But the Unites States decision to place American hunter-killer ballistic missiles, first strike missiles, 110 miles from the Chinese mainland, on soil that China sees, rightly or wrongly, as Chinese soil, is NOT within tolerable limits.
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