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# tolerable

adjective (more tolerable, most tolerable)

«tolerable» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#m1)
2. Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x1)
- The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x2)
- It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x3)
- The noise was tolerable for one evening. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x4)

### 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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tolerable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tolerable.html) on Mova free.