Crossword clues for tolerably
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tolerable \Tol"er*a*ble\, a. [L. tolerabilis: cf. F. tol['e]rable. See Tolerate.]
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Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
As may affect the earth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable.
--Milton. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation.
--Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- Tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Tol"er*a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 In a tolerable manner; to an extent that can be tolerated. 2 (cx dated English) Reasonably; acceptably; somewhat.
WordNet
adv. in a tolerable manner; "she did it well enough" [syn: well enough, to a tolerable degree, to an adequate degree]
in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably" [syn: acceptably, so-so] [ant: unacceptably, unacceptably]
Usage examples of "tolerably".
He had a tolerably large escort: two hundred Hebrian arquebusiers and swordsmen and eighty heavy cavalry armed with lances and paired matchlock pistols.
He now dipped his baler into the stream and found it pure and tolerably cool.
I begged him to get me a place as a mere waiting-maid, thinking that I was tolerably competent for such a position.
They ate them sitting on a low wall nearby, drinking from mugs of a dark, bitterish brew tolerably close to coffee, and watching the life in the street pass by.
I daresay I may never have warned you that although I am not bookish I have a tolerably good understanding!
It is mentioned in the 1586 and 1590 editions of Caccia, but we may be tolerably sure that Tabachetti had nothing to do with it.
I took him to my room, and finding him tolerably well educated, I asked him how he came to be in such a state of destitution.
The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth.
New York, where many of the streets are tolerably well filled even at midnight, people get in the way of sitting up much later than in the country, and Dodger was no exception to this rule.
None of the electric deep fryers had accurate thermostats, but all worked tolerably well when a frying thermometer was immersed in the oil and a sharp eye was kept on the temperature.
The 38th Dogras were, however, tolerably fresh, and Colonel Goldney, who commanded in the absence of the General, at once ordered four companies to parade and march to the relief.
I found that she was of tolerably easy virtue, and, knowing that she was very far from rolling in riches, I had no doubt that fifteen or twenty sequins would be quite sufficient to make her compliant.
The halls of the theatres are capital places for amateurs to exercise their talents in intriguing, and I had profited tolerably well by the lessons I had learnt in this fine school.
The effect of this scrappy, desultory reading is bad enough when the hashed compound selected is tolerably good.
Apparently there was some sort of janitor inside his head, a neatnik who had decided Jonesy was going to be here for awhile and so the place ought to be at least tolerably clean.