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# tolerably

adverb (more tolerably, most tolerably)

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

## Everyday

1. Tolerably means fairly well or quite; not very well, but well enough. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#m1)
2. Tolerably means to a fair degree, not extremely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#m2)

### In the lessons

in stories, a man on a tolerably good horse has a horse that is fairly good, not the finest; the word softens praise

### Examples

- I get on tolerably at school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x1)
- He met a man with a tolerably good horse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x2)
- The voyage was tolerably quiet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x3)
- She can swim tolerably well for her age. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths; it describes how well something is done and gives no number.

## On Mova

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