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[ adjective ] capable of being borne
Examples "tolerable noise levels" Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff 's abridgment for RCA_Victor ) I find the cleaner , less razor edged monophonic version , for all its lack of big stage spaciousness , the more aurally tolerable - but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)His assumption seems to be that any such friends , being tolerable humans , must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at_least partly in_sympathy_with his views . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] able to be tolerated or endured
Examples "the climate is at least tolerable" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] capable of being tolerated
Synonyms Examples "sufferable difficulties" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] neither good nor bad
Synonyms Examples "an indifferent performance" "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor" "her work at the office is passable" "a so-so golfer" "feeling only so-so" "prepared a tolerable dinner" "a tolerable working knowledge of French" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] neither good nor bad
Synonyms Examples "an indifferent performance" "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor" "her work at the office is passable" "a so-so golfer" "feeling only so-so" "prepared a tolerable dinner" "a tolerable working knowledge of French" Related terms |
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