tolerable
adjective (more tolerable, most tolerable)
Everyday
- Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with. tree →
- Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice. tree →
In the lessons
in stories, a tolerable fortune is a fairly large amount of money, not a huge one; the word describes how good something is, not how much
Examples
- The Russian merchant made a tolerable fortune. tree →
- The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty. tree →
- It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad. tree →
- The noise was tolerable for one evening. tree →
Note
nothing for maths; it gives a rough sense of quality and no exact amount.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «tolerable» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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