tolerable

Speech parts

1. tolerable - Adjective

2. tolerable - Adverb

3. tolerable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.

Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

adequate passable fair to middling common good average enough tenable so-so sufficient medium fine passing suitable ordinary
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

intolerable grand great special capital fantastic
Show all antonyms

Phrases with the word

tolerable amount

Examples

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. Anaïs Nin

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau

Good humor makes all things tolerable. Henry Ward Beecher

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. Walter Lippmann

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone. Eyvind Johnson

Jovial companions make this dull life tolerable. Cuban Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Tolentino Toler tolerability tolerable amount tolerableness tolerablish