tolerable
tolerable
Definition
tol·er·able (täl′ər ə bəl)
adjective
- that can be tolerated; endurable
- fairly good; passable
- Informal in reasonably good health
Etymology: ME tollerabill < MFr tolérable < L tolerabilis
tol′·er·abil′·ity noun
tol′·er·ably adverb
tolerable
Synonyms
tolerable
modif.
tolerable
Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- make: We managed to make a serious situation more tolerable than we had ever expected previously.
- find: Today I inspected our Karelian fortifications and on the whole found the situation tolerable.
Modifies a noun
- intake: These would be the levels to be achieved in order to bring human exposure below the tolerable weekly intake of 14 pg dioxins.
- standard: The amount of personal effort needed to keep up a tolerable standard is really quite, quite, trivial.
- limit: The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.
- level: These foods should be kept to a tolerable level.
- error: No packages are allowed to contain less than the nominal quantity by more than twice the tolerable negative error.
- state: Additions had been made in 1827 to Kings College buildings which were in a tolerable state of repair.
Modifying Another Word
- barely: Mere addition paradox: is a large population living barely tolerable lives better than a small happy population?
- quite: The existing 2 per cent trend rate of UK productivity advance is in fact quite tolerable.
- about: My view is that the present balance is just about tolerable given the undemocratic nature of the upper house.
- even: It is wrong to allow the wealthy to believe that the rest of society finds their existence desirable or even tolerable.
- very: The House, tho small, is very tolerable ' .
- just: It was very warm, but a cool wind coming down the valley kept things just tolerable.
Used with adjective complement
- remain: Climate change will accelerate uncontrollably; billions of people will die this century and only the Arctic regions will remain tolerable for humans.
- become: And the reading has started to grow on me and become more tolerable.
- find: This might have been found more tolerable had it been due to honest competition.
- make: There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.
- seem: It probably made the hardships of Grantham seem more tolerable.
- consider: The XLink AUP ( Acceptable Use Policy ) details what we at Team XLink will consider tolerable.
tolerable Quotes
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersöNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
There are only two kinds of government, the scarcely tolerable and the absolutely unbearable.
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