tolerable
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3.5
- adjective
- /ˈtɒlərəbl/
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tolerable
- I will do everything in my power to make your life tolerable.
- tolerable level
- tolerable limits
- tolerable standard
And then the same symptom becomes no longer tolerable in the end.
- And then the same symptom becomes no longer tolerable in the end.
- Only within the former Arctic and Antarctic circles was life tolerable.
- Excuse me, It felt a bit self indulgent at times, but overall a tolerable attempt at humor.
- It would fill me up so much that it made other things more tolerable.
- I hate all the holiday stuff, but that is far more tolerable to me than the grandstanding about your kid.
- He says in Macbeth when it's read, I find the witches tolerable.
- I had this image that they just figured out how to make the daily grind just tolerable.
- And in my book, I talk about it in terms of bad debt and tolerable debt.
- If you think it is never too late to fix it, you may be able to make it tolerable.
- And especially as we age, we have less tear film reserves or contacts may become less tolerable as we age.
- They can be uncomfortable for some people, but it feels like a mild finger flick on the head, very tolerable.
- And, and a lot of times I say that when you start changing and growing, what you used to tolerate becomes less tolerable.
- Is that version of each other tolerable, looking at whether we can handle each other on our worst, you know, days?
- It's a question of you framing the things that happened to you in a way that makes them not just more tolerable, but where you can actually extract the light from them.
- Primary care physicians could use them because they were very tolerable and not very complicated.
Examples
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The general conclusion is that the Dutch system will be tolerable to investors under the most likely operating conditions.
Academic text (1992) -
Most of the respondents experienced a tolerable racial climate at their doctoral institutions.
Academic text (1996) -
Is that version of each other tolerable, looking at whether we can handle each other on our worst, you know, days?
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It's when your life is just tolerable.
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During the day, it is almost tolerable, but at night, it is quite horrible.
Fiction book (1992) -
Even if one's partner is barely tolerable.
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I lit a match and found one of the rooms more tolerable than the others.
Fiction book (1990) -
Primary care physicians could use them because they were very tolerable and not very complicated.
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Yet often this measure protective of life develops beyond a certain tolerable level and, paradoxically, causes the destruction of life.
Academic text (2017) -
The temperature was barely tolerable for walking outside during the heatwave.
Synonyms
234
2.7
Enough in amount or quality to meet a need
31
4.9
Pleasant to taste or acceptable to most people
25
3.2
Not too painful or unpleasant to handle
8
4.4
Good enough but not very good
1
6.9
Medium quality, neither very good nor very bad
1
5.1
People can stand pain or hard work even if it is unpleasant
1
5.4
Able to be tolerated when it is unpleasant
You can put up with it even if it is unpleasant
Easy to accept or believe even if unpleasant
Antonyms
How Tolerable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tolerable comes from the Latin root toler- meaning 'to bear', and you can see the same root in tolerate and tolerance. So if something is tolerable, you can 'bear' it — it is not great, but you can accept or endure it.