Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: tolerable
IPA transcription: [t'ɑlɚəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: adequate, passable, fair_to_middling, tolerable
    Meaning: about average; acceptable; "more than adequate as a secretary"
  • Synonyms: tolerable
    Meaning: capable of being borne or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable"
Usage examples
  • What Christianity does propose is to make it tolerable.
  • He said that he had been used tolerable well, not so bad as many had been used.
  • It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity.
  • How Wickham and Lydia were to be supported in tolerable independence, she could not imagine.
  • Often as she had wished for and ordered it, she had never been able to get anything tolerable.
  • If horse or cow-flesh is not to be had, graves, in moderate quantity and well scalded, are a tolerable, though not very desirable, substitute.
  • The reflection necessary to produce a certain number even of tolerable productions augments more than he is aware of the mass of knowledge in the community.
  • If he destroys himself in order to escape from painful circumstances, he uses a person merely as a mean to maintain a tolerable condition up to the end of life.
  • English furniture, wall-papers, carpets, curtains, cutlery, garments, upholstery, ranged from the tolerable to the hideous, and were inferior to the manufactures of France and Germany.
  • The well-bred Swedes of the capital are formed on the ancient French model, and they in general speak that language; for they have a knack at acquiring languages with tolerable fluency.