1
[ 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

acceptable

2
[ adjective ] able to be tolerated or endured

Examples

"the climate is at least tolerable"

3
[ adjective ] capable of being tolerated

Synonyms

sufferable

Examples

"sufferable difficulties"

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permissible

4
[ adjective ] neither good nor bad

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

ordinary

5
[ adjective ] neither good nor bad

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"

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ordinary

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