Tolerable
adjective
A situation or condition that is good enough or satisfactory.
Although the hotel wasn't luxurious, the facilities were tolerable.
Often appears as...
- tolerable conditions
- tolerable quality
adjective
A person or thing that happens or behaves in a way you can accept or endure.
His jokes are often dull, but he is tolerable in small doses.
Often appears as...
- tolerable behavior
- tolerable company
adjective
A situation or condition that is good enough or satisfactory.
Although the hotel wasn't luxurious, the facilities were tolerable.
Often appears as...
- tolerable conditions
- tolerable quality
adjective
A person or thing that happens or behaves in a way you can accept or endure.
His jokes are often dull, but he is tolerable in small doses.
Often appears as...
- tolerable behavior
- tolerable company
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Disapproval
Often implies something is less than ideal, but still acceptable.
Her cooking is tolerable, though not what I'd prefer.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual Improvement
Used when something has improved enough to be acceptable.
After the repairs, the noise levels became tolerable.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Useful when comparing situations or things to highlight its adequacy.
Compared to the hostel, this hotel is quite tolerable.
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Disapproval
Often implies something is less than ideal, but still acceptable.
Her cooking is tolerable, though not what I'd prefer.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual Improvement
Used when something has improved enough to be acceptable.
After the repairs, the noise levels became tolerable.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Useful when comparing situations or things to highlight its adequacy.
Compared to the hostel, this hotel is quite tolerable.
Pro Tip 1/3Slight Disapproval
Often implies something is less than ideal, but still acceptable.
Her cooking is tolerable, though not what I'd prefer.
Pro Tip 2/3Gradual Improvement
Used when something has improved enough to be acceptable.
After the repairs, the noise levels became tolerable.
Pro Tip 3/3Comparative Context
Useful when comparing situations or things to highlight its adequacy.
Compared to the hostel, this hotel is quite tolerable.
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Video examples
Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
Sounded great. Of course, this was the Holy Grail of our industry, and the fact that this guy is a global icon didn't help either, because I'm sure if any of you ever stand in line at the grocery store, you know -- we see his face constantly. So there really was no tolerable margin of error.
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Diving for Giant Squid PIPE...
cut out for us today if we're gonna get any squid what I might do is go and sort out the ROV and I'll come back to the sit mic when it's a little bit cooler more tolerable hot as Hades you can use that word here right now any time give just like sweating the whole time and it
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How Benjamin Button got...
holy grail of our our industry and the fact that this guy is a global icon didn't help either because I'm sure if anybody ever stand in line at the grocery store you know we see his face constantly so there really was no tolerable margin of error there were two
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The case to infect...
a tolerable risk level and the number should be below that there are further unknowns sometimes even that group people die young people sometimes die of this you healthy young people do it's very rare but when they do we don't know
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
and denies that worker the right to organize. Mind you, none of what I am describing about this agricultural sector or the guest worker program is actually human trafficking. It is merely what we find legally tolerable.
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From Ashes to Ink PIPE...
everybody asks you know does it hurt as a painful it is painful as excruciating but it's tolerable and I think that that actually kind of resembles what life is you know it's excruciating it's very painful but it's
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Is civility a sham? PIPE...
places that at least aspired to protect disagreement as well as diversity, and what made that possible was the virtue of civility. What made disagreement tolerable, what it made it possible for us to share a life,
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What Makes Angry Birds...
since at the time yeah yeah do we have a question then I'll get it okay right over here okay first of all thank you very much for making long road trips and plane flights more tolerable and the
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United Nations Messenger...
we can remove these this can be well this is her height controller for short later like this and tolerable what specific message do you think is the most important climate change is coming
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Embrace your raw,...
on a sign that read, "He who adapts can live tolerably." It was a bargain that helped ensure I had a place to stay and food to eat;
Video examples
Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin...
Sounded great. Of course, this was the Holy Grail of our industry, and the fact that this guy is a global icon didn't help either, because I'm sure if any of you ever stand in line at the grocery store, you know -- we see his face constantly. So there really was no tolerable margin of error.
Video examples
Diving for Giant Squid PIPE...
cut out for us today if we're gonna get any squid what I might do is go and sort out the ROV and I'll come back to the sit mic when it's a little bit cooler more tolerable hot as Hades you can use that word here right now any time give just like sweating the whole time and it
Video examples
How Benjamin Button got...
holy grail of our our industry and the fact that this guy is a global icon didn't help either because I'm sure if anybody ever stand in line at the grocery store you know we see his face constantly so there really was no tolerable margin of error there were two
Video examples
The case to infect...
a tolerable risk level and the number should be below that there are further unknowns sometimes even that group people die young people sometimes die of this you healthy young people do it's very rare but when they do we don't know
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
and denies that worker the right to organize. Mind you, none of what I am describing about this agricultural sector or the guest worker program is actually human trafficking. It is merely what we find legally tolerable.
Video examples
From Ashes to Ink PIPE...
everybody asks you know does it hurt as a painful it is painful as excruciating but it's tolerable and I think that that actually kind of resembles what life is you know it's excruciating it's very painful but it's
Video examples
Is civility a sham? PIPE...
places that at least aspired to protect disagreement as well as diversity, and what made that possible was the virtue of civility. What made disagreement tolerable, what it made it possible for us to share a life,
Video examples
What Makes Angry Birds...
since at the time yeah yeah do we have a question then I'll get it okay right over here okay first of all thank you very much for making long road trips and plane flights more tolerable and the
Video examples
United Nations Messenger...
we can remove these this can be well this is her height controller for short later like this and tolerable what specific message do you think is the most important climate change is coming
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Embrace your raw,...
on a sign that read, "He who adapts can live tolerably." It was a bargain that helped ensure I had a place to stay and food to eat;
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Quote examples
Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
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Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
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Reinhold Niebuhr
American Theologian
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
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T. E. Lawrence
British Soldier
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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Charles de Gaulle
French Leader
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
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Patrick O'Brian
English Novelist
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
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Sebastian Faulks
British Novelist
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
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Anais Nin
American Author
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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Adam Smith
Scottish Economist
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Quote examples
Samuel Richardson
English Novelist
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
Quote examples
Reinhold Niebuhr
American Theologian
Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Quote examples
T. E. Lawrence
British Soldier
Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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Charles de Gaulle
French Leader
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
Quote examples
Patrick O'Brian
English Novelist
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
Quote examples
Sebastian Faulks
British Novelist
There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.
Quote examples
Anais Nin
American Author
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Plato
Greek Philosopher
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
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George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
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